When I was a teenager in Brazil, there were no microcomputers but I got a hand on a programmable calculator at TA58. And actually my first interesting program was a part of a game from the HP 25 calculator to the TI 59. Then I went through lots of languages after basic Pascal and then Delphi and then Visual Basic. When the web started here in Brazil, again, we had a kind of a different situation because all telecom companies in Brazil were state-owned at that time. So I was hired by a large publishing company here to start developing their strategy for online. After reading mentions of Python, a few times I decided to go study it and then read the tutorial