Man, I cannot remember what the first thing I did was, but I do know I did it on a Tandy that was hooked up to my TV. My mom could not afford the then ubiquitous Atari 2600 so she got this thing from Radio Shack. It came with a cartridge for a game called dungeon and a another for BASIC. The best thing I remember writing was a trivia game that stumped my mom once. I was darn proud of that...
<myExperience>
$mostLanguages = 'Designed for engineers by engineers.';
$perl = 'Designed for people who speak by a linguist.';
</myExperience>