Comment by khedoros1

I did c++ in high school in the late 90s. No teacher, just a textbook. The "teacher" for the computer lab just handed each of us a book and told us to show him something cool every day.

So I ended up doing bits of QBasic, Visual Basic, and C++ (since all three books were in the room, and QB was easier to generate flashy visuals with, as a beginner).