Tandy Color Computer 2 and the manual it came with. That was high school, by the time I was forced to take my first programming class (I was a mechanical engineering major) I already knew enough BASIC to make my professor miserable.

He got his vengeance, he was my FORTRAN66 + FORTRAN77 + WATFIV professor. I aced the class, but It wasn't easy because he was teaching all three variants, but our VAX 11/750 only had WATFIV, and the book was for WATFIV.

Later I took a computer generated graphics programming class, but that one was a piece of cake.

That's the extent of my programming education, yet here I am over 17 years since graduation and all I do is program program program. Everything I do now is because I learned it on my own.

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