Comment by alnwlsn

Technically I learned the drag and drop Lego Mindtorms first. Don't know what kind of habit forming research there is about that.

Any of them are a big step from "computer is just for MS PAINT" to "wow, it actually did something I told it to".

By the time I got to the Z80 stuff I had abandoned basic (though learning C from Arduino is also something people tend not to recommend). Once I learned some Z80 assembly and I encountered BASIC again, I was struck by how similar assembly language and BASIC are, specifically the setting variables and then jumping around all the time part. They taught this stuff to kids!