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HyperTalk in HyperCard on what I think was a Macintosh LC. It came with a little book of functions. I used the functions to do some scripting, but I had no idea what I was doing because I had no one to teach me. I don't even think I knew how to do loops. I think
Later, I picked up TI calculator programming. I automated a few simple formulas that I tired of.
In high school, I learned PHP as my first real programming language. I used it to make web sites for a club where we had paying customers. Sure I didn't know what I was doing half the time, but I managed to produce some good stuff. My crowning achievement was the registration site for a local competition. From there I got into Python (big improvement).