The first and almost last code I learned was Cobol in 1980 from a professor so bad he couldn’t teach Eskimos to make igloos. And having to fight the Indonesian kids for keypunch machines at 2:00 a.m. left a really bad taste. I didn’t touch a computer of any kind for 15 years.
Now all the code I need to know I get from Free Republic’s HTML Sandbox.
Don’t forget about RPG.