[consultutah]

Atari basic on a 800, then a 800XL, then GFA Basic on Atari 1040ST. There was a TI-99 in there somewhere too.

I mostly copied programs from Compute! and Byte magazine, but started writing my own things once I got the hang of it.

I liked games, but I was never really a game programmer. Most of my apps were and continue to be for businesses. I helped my dad write an app for his TRS-80, the handheld version, that calculated labor for tying rebar.

I think rails would be a great way to get started, but they abstract a lot of important pieces, that you'll eventually need to understand to be a good developer.