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33 years ago, on an Atari 800 my Dad bought us. Learned BASIC from the books with program listings of games that you had to type in. All of them were for other flavors of BASIC, so had to modify them for the Atari. Then went in and modified the games to make them more fun or challenging.

Went from that to Pascal, to C, to Assembly, back to C/C++, then Java. Was still developing in Java until about 5 years ago, when I migrated over to "Architect" roles. Have since toyed in both Ruby/Rails and Python on side projects to keep from getting too rusty and to learn something new.