My first coding experience...
Was laboriously typing BASIC line by line from from a book of games written for the Oric 1 (before we upgraded to the much more lovely Oric 48K). Typing and then debugging would take hours if not days, and the results were, well, often a bit shit.
Looking back, I, erm, don't think it did mE aNy LoNG tErM hARm....
60 Programs for the Oric 1 http://www.defence-force.org/computing/oric/library/lib_coding_basic/