Fun fact about my programming career:
My first program ever written was around age 10 and it was a port of a game from one language to another.
Not first "completed game" or even "first serious program": the very first code I ever wrote was me reading a BASIC game out of a book, then reading the DOS 5 manual enough to figure out how to port the game to a DOS batch file.
@foone Your DOS machine didn't have BASICA or QBASIC?!
@stilescrisis correct!
@foone At the risk of asking a dumb question... why not?!? I thought BASIC came with every PC of DOS vintage.
@stilescrisis I got the PC used, with no install disks, and the previous owner deleted the BASIC program