I, too, learned programming in BASIC. I wrote many programs, really useful ones, too. My mom is a pharmacist, I wrote a simple program to calculate price of some of the items they prepared. I wrote a flashcard like program to study foreign language, a quiz program to learn license plate codes in Turkey. I wrote screen saver animations, random circles, yin and yang, drawing flags. It was an amazing feeling as a child. I’d never looked up who created it, either. Now I know: Rest in peace, Thomas Kurtz!