[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

> Though it also taught me some ... less favorable habits, as they are more common place. Think of: Continuously calling wait() until something loaded, Excessive use of globals, overuse of strings, coding single god-functions that do everything (with a frick ton of redundancy).

I feel like that's probably true of everybody's first adventures in programming. Certainly was for all of us who grew up writing BASIC.

[gh02t]

Yep, my first experience with programming was TI-BASIC and all I had to go on was the TI-83 manual. I used a lot of GOTO until I figured out how loops worked.