History of BASIC, Part 3 open.substack.com/pub/abortretry // fun 3-part series on the history of BASIC. From Dartmouth to Altair to VB for Windows :-)
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I recall BASIC on the IBM PC my mom bought was actually Microsoft Advanced BASIC (aka BASICA), which my brother and I learned to program on, and the user manual/language reference was literally on display at the Smithsonian Museum of American History for a number of years.
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Cooper Software, Alan Cooper, from Marin County. He learned his first programming at College of Marin in Kentfield CA. I attended SEF meetings in Palo Alto where he first demoed early beta versions of VB. He is truly an unrecognized Giant in the early history of comp language dev
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Back them it seemed there was a goal to software development easy and accessible as possible. Now read most getting started tutorials and you'll likely be starting with a command line, which seems like a backwards step to me. Apple & Swift Playgrounds being the exception.
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BASIC was my first programming language. Floppies were actually floppy then. I also had a crush on the instructor. 😁