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Before you let the negs fly, I'm not asking what's a first good programming language. I think that question has been asked enough times. I am curious though, as to what was the first programming language everyone here at AO learned.
My first language was QBasic. I know it's kind of sad but back then I thought it was pretty cool. "Hey look, I can make my text blink and change color." What can I say, when I was little simple things amused me.
QBASIC for me, too. Then VB.
heh... im not that old :/ I started out with the wonderful world of C ;)
Yeah I went to Visual Basic after Qbasic too. Thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Then I installed linux and started programming in C/C++ and haven't looked back since.
I'm pretty young, but I started old school. PASCAL! YEAH! PASCAL is the best outdated language ever! Then I smarted up and learned C++.
Hmm, its not quite a language, but its a form of programming, I started out with Dos Batch Files, then learned HTML, Shell, and C, in that order, though ive got a long ways to go before I can say I'm proficient at C.
I first learned C++ during a summer before taking APCS in C++. Then I moved on to C and Pascal (figured I was learning programming anyway, so I took the old APCS Pascal class independent study with my C++ instructor). After a year or so, I started learning Java and VB. Now, 5 years later, I know way too many programming languages...
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Yeah I started out with Qbasic, I remember I could create a block and move it with the A and S keys like a mini 2D game. I went on to Vbasic afterwards. Most of the Language nowadays are good, its up to you to use and learn them. I reckon c/c++ is a good one. Start off with a simpler languauge and than work your way up, say like Pascal, Java, or even Python, or you can just go ahead and learn c/c++..........
I started off with Qbasic, then moved on to C++ and then backtracked to Pascal. After that, a hold lot of programming languages started pouring in.
For me once you start, the others are easy to learn, because I picked up VB easily over two weeks one summer and learned a lot more there after...
I know that at my college, engineering students take an engineering programming class. For many it's their first exposure to programming languages and the language that they use is Fortran.
Qbasic, then pascal, then c, then vb, then c++ and vc++
C, then C++... now - addicted to perl...
basic on the c64, logo (is that a language or a pastime?) moving the turtle around was ridiculous.
when i grew up: VB, html, xml, java, going into scripting for AS400 and C++
Perl here, and still learning actually :)
My first computer was a TRS 80 CoCo 3, a hell of a opwerful computer when it first came out. The big thing then was a form of BASIC, and MAN was it a frustrator to use.
I'd say if you're getting started nowadays, C++ or VBasic are the way to go.
Anybody know how C# works for newbies? And what are the major differences from versions before this?
Well HTML was my first programming-related thing, then JavaScript...etc
AppleSoft II. It was a licensed copy of Microsoft BASIC with graphic routines for the Apple. It was installed in the ROM of my first computer, an Apple II+. I still have the programming manual even though it is twenty years old. Sice then I have learned Pascal, C, C++, Visual Basic, Paradox, FoxPro, and Access. Working on XML and ColdFusion.
Dating myself horribly......
Basic, then some Fortran, then a smattering of Cobol, and onto RPG II.
Currently C++ and beating myself up with Linux
Visual Basic..
I'm 13, but C/C++ is what im learning now. It's so fun :). So it'll be my first language.
I started with Amiga Basic (by Microsoft).
Then I tried C but I failed (Im not good with programming languages).
But I like DHTML and JavaScript, these languages are not so hard to learn
and you can do nice things with it, I buyed some books about these languages
and now Im learning.
well if you can call html a language i learned that when i was 12, amused myself for 2 years and now im trying to teach myself c++, any suggestions for what to go to from there?
I started with basic on my zx spectrum, then C64 & msx basic. (seems like ages ago!)
also did some qbasic.
later I learned turbo pascal, assembly (various processors), Gupta/centura, C, VB, all web (script) langs and some perl. Currently i'm programming Navision Financials and attain.
i dont know much about programming languages....but Java is my soft spot, before long i learned C...i flunked 2 times in my university. Now i'm going back to VB. now reading books about network architecture.It's fun to know there's so huge sea of knowledge to scoop out.
Started with C++ for passing but it hooked me to computer , then pascal( for college course) and then java but mainly using C/C++.I think i'll try python next.:-)
i started out on C then moved on to C++, at the moment im studying assembly and i can now see the advantges of high level languages
Pascal, C, C++, C++, Cobol, C, C++, Cobol, Asm.
In that order.
Cobol comes from my minor.