I learned to program in the 80's: BASIC on a Commodore PET and Apple, and C on an Amiga. In 1987 I took my first programming class in high school, and it was in Fortran which they told me was what "professionals used".

Coding was in Wordstar, and I remember being outraged that code had to start on column 7. Isn't this simple bookkeeping what computers were for?

I ended up going to college as a math major and avoiding the engineering degree because they coded in Fortran.