I began self-taught programming (as a 12-years old kid) on Apple II with APPLESOFT, a kind of BASIC since 1984 or earlier.
My first open source project was a LPMud called Eastern Stories 2, which was widely used as codebase in Chinese MUDs.
Feel free to download or fork my public repo if you found them useful. Bug reports are welcome, but timely response is not guaranteed.