In college starting in 1966 I learned to program computers in COBOL (which is a business language) and Fortran (which is sort of a math based or scientific computer language. I always liked Fortran a lot because I had also always liked Algebra and Fortran reminded me a lot of Algebra because you have to think in similar ways to Algebra to solve problems in programming in Fortran.
Next, around 1978 I taught myself and my children the Basic Language mostly because I had bought for around 800 dollars a TRS-80 home computer from Radio Shack. Then I taught my older children how to program games for themselves and how to design games so they could play on this computer.
The next Language I learned was HTML in 1995 by copying a yahoo page and playing with the HTML to see what it did in actuality.
Also, Learning MS-DOS or (Microsoft Disc Operating system) I found to be a lot like learning to program a computer language too. So, by the time they created Windows 95 which more closely resembles operating systems by Microsoft today it was easy compared to learning MS-DOS where you had to be somewhat techie to begin with to master MS-DOS operating system.
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