please dear lord not BASIC! Those of us who learned to code on 8-bit micros back in the day never used BASIC anyway & ended up writing everything in machine code.
You could use an emulator: the Jupiter Ace for example, which ran Forth (quite a good first language to learn)
I'd suggest Wolfram langauge on the Raspberry Pi, or Squeak Smalltalk
As a cyclist of 40 years who's (hopefully) learned from their mistakes, I strongly disagree.
Not only is it unsafe, pisses-off drivers and pedestrians, gives cyclists a bad name, but it's also completely unnecessary because you'll easily catch-up with cyclists who shot the lights at the next intersection anyway without even trying.
That's what cyclists who shoot lights don't get is that it's actually not any faster in the long run.
Having said that, I suspect that many drivers who are pissed-off by cyclists shooting lights would be the ones doing it themselves if they were on bikes because it's really just a form of road-rage. Yes, some cyclists are stupidly aggressive, but so are many drivers.