What was your first Programming Language
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Re: What was your first Programming Language
As as many have included markup languages, first HTML, then CSS.
Counting only real programming languages, I started C++ a few months ago. I haven't got that far though due to other projects, mainly literature and art.
Counting only real programming languages, I started C++ a few months ago. I haven't got that far though due to other projects, mainly literature and art.
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Re: What was your first Programming Language
I'll join the HyperCard group. The scripting language behind it, HyperTalk, is most definitely a real language.
I still have fond memories of discovering that
is correct and useful. The implicit variable "it" was probably my favourite feature.
I still have fond memories of discovering that
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on mouseUp
ask "What do you want to do?"
do it
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Re: What was your first Programming Language
Same as most, HTML being my actually first but WML being the first to yield results. Currently learning Lua.
Re: What was your first Programming Language
If we're counting HTML then I guess I have to change my vote.
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Re: What was your first Programming Language
Well, if we don't count markup languages then Lua would be first, and I haven't even fully learned it yet.
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Re: What was your first Programming Language
I first learned programming with BASIC, first in VIC-20 and then C-64. My first PC came with Turbo Pascal, and I used that quite a while. Since then I've learned Python, C, PHP, R and Octave (Matlab). Of the markup languages, I've used HTML+CSS, SVG, LaTeX, POV-Ray SDL and WML. I'm not really good in any of those, though, but when you're familiar with several languages, it's rather easy to learn new ones.
Tiedäthän kuinka pelataan.
Tiedäthän, vihtahousua vastaan.
Tiedäthän, solmu kravatin, se kantaa niin synnit
kuin syntien tekijätkin.
Tiedäthän, vihtahousua vastaan.
Tiedäthän, solmu kravatin, se kantaa niin synnit
kuin syntien tekijätkin.
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Re: What was your first Programming Language
My original was Unit/Era WML(and I can't say I've tried anything else)... After that I wrote some Applescript Apps and some simple games in Inform7... Right now though I've been experimenting with BASH and UNIX/SHELL script which I find most difficult(I've been writing a GUI for FreeDOS).
Re: What was your first Programming Language
I think my first touch with programming was with some BASIC system, but I don't really remember this. (It was not my own computer, too - I think some course somewhere.)
Then, when I got my own computer, I did quite some programs in MS-DOS batch files (which was not easy, since it does not really support arithmetic - so this mainly were programs with lots of menu structures and little real use).
Later came Pascal (Turbo Pascal for DOS, then Borland Pascal for Windows), where I simulated a combined spring/cord pendulum, painted a 3-dimensional colored wave, and wrote a program for learning vocabulary (this used the Windows API, I think).
(Then came Java, LaTeX, Bash, JavaScript, procmail, elisp, C, lex, bison, SQL (including implementing a simplified subset in C), C++, PHP, WML, Lua, Groovy. I'm not totally sure about the order, though. I also looked in quite some more languages.)
(Edit: adding some languages I forgot before.)
Then, when I got my own computer, I did quite some programs in MS-DOS batch files (which was not easy, since it does not really support arithmetic - so this mainly were programs with lots of menu structures and little real use).
Later came Pascal (Turbo Pascal for DOS, then Borland Pascal for Windows), where I simulated a combined spring/cord pendulum, painted a 3-dimensional colored wave, and wrote a program for learning vocabulary (this used the Windows API, I think).
(Then came Java, LaTeX, Bash, JavaScript, procmail, elisp, C, lex, bison, SQL (including implementing a simplified subset in C), C++, PHP, WML, Lua, Groovy. I'm not totally sure about the order, though. I also looked in quite some more languages.)
(Edit: adding some languages I forgot before.)