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I learned on BASIC myself, back in high school, on a Trash-80. But when I actually did coding for a living, they were teaching Structured Programming and my BASIC mindset was a real handicap.

Structured Programming is a concept which breaks down any programming task, no matter how complex, into combinations of only four basic constructs:

simple sequence of instructions
if-then-else
do-while
do-until

If designed this way, the resulting code is much easier to understand and maintain.

I learned on BASIC myself, back in high school, on a Trash-80. But when I actually did coding for a living, they were teaching Structured Programming and my BASIC mindset was a real handicap.

I learned BASIC on an Apple II+, carried through on a Commodore 64, and on to one of the original IBM PCs. I graduated to QuickBasic, where I was very happy to lose the line numbers, and on to VisualBasic 2.0, where I made the transition to event-driven programming. With VB 4.0, I made the transition to OO design and coding, and haven't looked back.

Experience with back-end C++ coding showed me where VB has shortcomings where OO is concerned, and how to mimic it when the environment doesn't explicitly handle it.

BASIC, itself, isn't an environmental mindset, it's simply a syntax and a programming language. There is no such thing as a "BASIC mindset". The mindset is either straight sequential, structured, or object-oriented. You can do any of the three in just about any language there is.