What was your first Programming Language
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- Luroch_Delkar
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What was your first Programming Language
No this is not the same as the "what is your favorite language" topic.
Regardless of which language you think is the best, I am curious what the first one was that you tried to learn, and what one you first learned "extensively" as in which did you first make a program/game in.
Regardless of which language you think is the best, I am curious what the first one was that you tried to learn, and what one you first learned "extensively" as in which did you first make a program/game in.
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Re: What was your first Programming Language
First programming *attempt* was in C++, first major step in programming was in WML. I don't get around with it much.
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Re: What was your first Programming Language
Wow, I forgot to post my own response.
I first learned some BASIC from an old computer.
First language I did stuff with was HTML/PHP (with scattered attempts at Java/Visual Basic)
First language I really did stuff in was WML
I first learned some BASIC from an old computer.
First language I did stuff with was HTML/PHP (with scattered attempts at Java/Visual Basic)
First language I really did stuff in was WML
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Re: What was your first Programming Language
Pretty much what Bigkahuna said.
Took classes in C++ and VB. Neither stuck.
Then years of WML before moving to any serious "real" programming again.
Took classes in C++ and VB. Neither stuck.
Then years of WML before moving to any serious "real" programming again.
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Re: What was your first Programming Language
First was C. Have since branched out into Haskell, Lua, and Assembly.
I use C/Assembly for driver/kernel development.
I use Haskell for linux scripting and web development (via snap.)
And Lua for game development (via love2d.)
I use C/Assembly for driver/kernel development.
I use Haskell for linux scripting and web development (via snap.)
And Lua for game development (via love2d.)
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Re: What was your first Programming Language
First language I attempted anything in was probably python
First actually made program was in scheme (and boy how I was glad to move on)
First game, and essentially completely original program was C#. I may never move from any of the C family... grown too attached *tear of joy*
First actually made program was in scheme (and boy how I was glad to move on)
First game, and essentially completely original program was C#. I may never move from any of the C family... grown too attached *tear of joy*
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Re: What was your first Programming Language
A tiny bit of VBA (really, just enough to suddenly let me know in a flash of blinding light "Hey! I actually like programming!")
After that, C++ was the one I learned. Did some various small things in it, didn't really do much till late last year when I started doing some primitive graphics with openGL.
Right now, I'm programming a couple of projects, one in C++ and one in Unicon. Ya, I know you've never heard of it, so what?
After that, C++ was the one I learned. Did some various small things in it, didn't really do much till late last year when I started doing some primitive graphics with openGL.
Right now, I'm programming a couple of projects, one in C++ and one in Unicon. Ya, I know you've never heard of it, so what?
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Re: What was your first Programming Language
I honestly am not sure if it was BASIC, Logo, or HyperTalk (from HyperCard). Certainly, one of the three, when I was no older than 8 years old. HyperTalk would have been the first I actually made something with. By the time I got to college, Java and C++ was easy and familiar.
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Re: What was your first Programming Language
an earlier version of wml, after which my brother tried to teach me Python and Java (unsucsessfully)
...apparenly we can't go with it or something.
Re: What was your first Programming Language
I first learned HTML if you count mark-up languages.
First real language I learned was Java.
First real language I learned was Java.
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Re: What was your first Programming Language
My first steps (as stated in the "have you finished your first game" thread) were with DOS .bat files.
First "real" programming then in Turbo Pascal.
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First "real" programming then in Turbo Pascal.
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Re: What was your first Programming Language
Back in the old days, I had a C64. There was a book that came with it that had some examples for BASIC programs. I typed in a couple of them and understood a little what I was doing. Sadly I dropped the topic although there was "informatics" as a school course which I took for a year, but I lost interest in between transition from the introductory part to the PASCAL part.
I regret it now. But I couldn't force myself to get into learning to code yet.
So sad.
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I regret it now. But I couldn't force myself to get into learning to code yet.
So sad.
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Re: What was your first Programming Language
A dialect of BASIC for a programmable scientific calculator.
Years later, C#. If you think MS-DOS batch files count, put that immediately after BASIC above.
Years later, C#. If you think MS-DOS batch files count, put that immediately after BASIC above.
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Re: What was your first Programming Language
Some of my friends would argue HTML isn't a programming language (more a mark up thing, as Gambit mentions), but it would be the first one I ever attempted. A few years later, WML is the first language to yield any results (Haven't been trying very hard in between :hmm" ), and then Lua. I'm not really a seasonned programmer at all, though, more of a remote amateur
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Re: What was your first Programming Language
Hyper Card when I was under ten years old... Well not really programming, but whatever.
If not Hyper Card, then my first real programming was in QBASIC on a TI-86 for which I attempted to program games. I did about as fast a screen refresh as was available without using assembly so I could move a guy around a screen and shoot a bullet into static targets to make them disappear... Some of other those games on the TI-86 are amazing and mine is not. I probably did some other programs for some course work, but very little.
I suppose C/C++, with little to no C++ functionality, was the first language I used in school to do stuff.
If not Hyper Card, then my first real programming was in QBASIC on a TI-86 for which I attempted to program games. I did about as fast a screen refresh as was available without using assembly so I could move a guy around a screen and shoot a bullet into static targets to make them disappear... Some of other those games on the TI-86 are amazing and mine is not. I probably did some other programs for some course work, but very little.
I suppose C/C++, with little to no C++ functionality, was the first language I used in school to do stuff.