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Tunisia as well, we learned basic algorithms using Turbo Pascal

Echoing the same from Russia circa 2006, had the first "informatics" (aka intro to CS) class in 6th grade taught in Turbo Pascal. Sadly, learned almost nothing in that class, as the teacher had about as much understanding and interest in the material as the students (aka near none).

Luckily, many years later in a US high school, I rediscovered it all from scratch (programming, not Turbo Pascal lol), and things started making way more sense. Looking back, it was not the fault of Turbo Pascal at all for how my first experience with it went, and i find it a pretty fascinating language.

I was also very disappointed to learn that my teachers didn't care for or wanted to talk about Python, Java or anything that wasn't in the curriculum. They didn't have that "spark" that I found again in university.

All they cared about was the material they were supposed to teach (Turbo Pascal, Dreamwaver and Microsoft Access) and it almost turned me off from programming.

In Russia as well.

and Moldova