[octorian]

I started on the Apple II with BASIC. Then, some computer teacher convinced my parents that I should be learning LOGO instead and gave me lessons. After spending some time on it, I found it sufficiently frustrating that I actually gave up and went back to BASIC.

I don't recall exactly that it was that I didn't like about LOGO back then. One thing probably was that I needed to first boot up into a "special environment" to run my code, and thus it didn't feel like I was writing a real program for the machine. Another might have been the emphasis on moving a turtle around, versus actually doing anything with text.