Pascal was one of my favorites growing up too, although not my first (Basic and ...

Pascal was one of my favorites growing up too, although not my first (Basic and Logo got me started).

I learned most of my hard-core programming through demos ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demo_(computer_programming) ), which I did in Pascal first, and then added x86 Assembly.

Demo programming not only made programming accessible and fun, it also was the first time that I actually got interested in Calculus outside of school (matrix math for 3D animations, etc)