@feoh I dunno; BASIC might introduce some simple ideas easily, but there's a lot of it not to like. TBH, CircuitPython on Pygamer hardware or similar might be more instructive
Richard was on the BBC's language committee, wrote the Z80 version (which was roughly contemporary with Acorn's BBC Micro version) and has been supporting it ever since
I have an overly large list of BASIC things, if people care