In high school a learned a bit programming but I did not like it much back then. Later on a 386 computer I discovered qbasic with nibbles.bas (snake game) and gorillas.bas. I figured out how to more lives in nibbles.bas by modifying it’s qbasic. This made me more interested in programming and try write my own games in qbasic.
This is also my experience. The results are usually very vaguely related with what I search. I had better luck with Wikipedia comparison tables, but often they are incomplete.