The "Good Old Days?" Well, not so much, really.

[MineralMan]

160. I had a couple of programming classes in 1963-4.

That was it until the mid 1980s, when I finally got a PC clone. It was part of my contract to write a DIY book for Rodale Press. I said I'd do the book for them, but I wanted a PC. I fell in love with it immediately, and soon began writing code in MS-BASIC. Later, I switched to he QuickBasic compiler, and finally to Visual Basic. I had a small shareware software company, making special purpose applications and utilities. Some of the stuff sold pretty well, and even got reviews in major computer magazines.

All self taught. So, my coding style was not normal, really. I didn't learn any other languages, because I didn't need to to do what I wanted to do. For me, BASIC was just another language I learned. The only difference was that I was telling a machine what to do.