+10000000 on the help system alone. Those people deserve a prize for making so many first time programming experiences so accessible. I read the QB help back to front as a kid
Reading the QBasic help is literally how I learned to program. I owe it my livelihood.
I started out by reading the GWBASIC manual, a 500-page tome I found in our bookshelf at home. Then I asked my father whether he could get me GWBASIC and noted that he'd have something better, QBasic, which had integrated help. It was so much better and always just a keystroke away.
Turbo Pascal was also an awesome development experience back then.
The help system was amazing even for someone who could barely read English at the time.
It helped me learn english and programming at the same time.
I probably spent months playing with just the graphics programming tutorials. Copy-paste some of the tutorial code and slowly start changing things. I didn't speak English very well but somehow those tutorials were still helpful.