Classic Basic (line numbers, GOTO) resembles 1960s/1970s FORTRAN before it adopted structured programming. The idea when BASIC was invented in Dartmouth in the 1960s that it would be a good introduction to programming for students who might have to learn FORTRAN. The thing is, when BASIC was at its most popular (1980s home computers) FORTRAN itself had moved on from "spaghetti code".
Beginners' All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, if I remember correctly.
I also started programming in BASIC, and moved on to Pascal when I discovered Turbo Pascal around 1983, which also happened to be the language most of my CS classes used a year later when I switched majors from foundering in EE to excelling in CS.
I still have a bunch of my BASIC programs from the day.