[aaronz3]

I remember growing up I was playing on the Internet and found a 10 chapter book online for QBASIC. I printed it out and had it scattered all over the floor, and in no time at all I was writing code that actually did things. I had never written code before and I was in elementary school (9 or 10?).

Eventually this led to html, javascript, php, VB, C#, etc. Dad wasn't real thrilled when he realized I used all of the printer ink to do this, but I'd say it was a pretty good return on his investment.

EDIT: I'd like to play with BASIC again, anyone know of a way to do that on OSX? VM?

[lepht]

You should check out Chipmunk BASIC [1]. Nice simple BASIC interpreter that runs natively in Mac OS X and includes basic graphical functions.

[1]http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/

[canadaduane]

Dosbox is a great emulator and works in OSX

http://www.dosbox.com/