Absolutely. I was born in 1996 but got into retro games in 2007 thanks to AVGN, after which retro computers came shortly after. I learned how to program in BASIC during covid and made a text adventure RPG that I then translated into Python to learn that language.

I still think BASIC is a great programming language to learn for a beginner. It gives you the blocks of what you’ll need to tackle a modern language rather than being overwhelmed.