Me too, first basic then assembly.
One of my favourite games was R-Type, and this book is a great read. I'm rationing myself so I have some left for tomorrow evening!
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Same here. The ZX manual that came with a list of Z80 opcodes was how I learnt assembly/machine code programming. I lived in a real backwaters, and getting the ZX Spectrum as a gift from a distant uncle changed my life.
Had no other books, no community, absolutely no other resources to learn anything. But the ZX and its manuals got me to where I could write machine code programs without even looking up the opcodes.
Ah...nostalgia.
Ditto. My first computer was the family spectrum. Learnt basic. Then hand assembling machine code. Wrote my own assembler at one point. Good times ;-)