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| Main - Computing - Programming Poll #3: First programming language | New thread | New reply |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 221/1881 EXP: 6465860 Next: 184804 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6153 days Last view: 6144 days |
What was the first programming language you ever programmed in, and how old were you when you first programmed?
My first programming experience was in Basic on a Commodore 64 (which is quite different from the more common forms of Basic such as Q and Visual. For one thing, it had LINE NUMBERS. Dun dun dun.) This was 1995, so it was old even then, but my parents were always way behind in technology. I was 8 years old at the time. (I know I'm beat though. I know a guy at university who first programmed at age 5, also with a Commodore 64 and Basic.) My first "real" programming was in C one year later on a DOS-based machine. Most of the languages I know (C, C++, Java, and PHP) use C-like syntax, which really throws me off now that I'm learning Haskell in school, I tried to use % as a modulus operator whereas Haskell uses the function "mod". |
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beh Level: 86 Posts: 266/1816 EXP: 6133382 Next: 8725 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 6153 days Last view: 6153 days |
The first programming language I ever used was PHP around 2005. I later learned C++ and Delphi (needed Delphi for my computer class  ). |
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 Popo Level: 51 Posts: 277/539 EXP: 991804 Next: 22134 Since: 02-20-07 From: Kasuto Last post: 4796 days Last view: 4796 days |
I haven't done enough to know what I would be talking about, but I did do some programming in HS. I think I used VB. Don't know for sure. I am soon going to pick it up again. |
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Newcomer Level: 8 Posts: 8/8 EXP: 1793 Next: 394 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 6272 days Last view: 6223 days |
Qbasic in my case, at the age of 6, rather fast switched to Pascal though. ^^
Didn't really stay long there either and switched to C(learned from the original K&R book ^^), with about 10 i switched to C++, which i rather long stayed at. Now it's additionally stuff like Lisp, Erlang, Scheme, OCaml and similar languages, and script languages for the very small tasks  |
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Level: 105 Posts: 496/2846 EXP: 12035070 Next: 227190 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 6067 days Last view: 2804 days |
QBASIC, back in 1997 or so  Probably even before that...
I was never that good at it (Cycler is still my best by farr, and it's a simple palette rotater). Then came Visual Basic (very little of it, mostly Word's little VB clone/macros)... Then PHP (yes, I learned everything from Acmlmboards, now you all know why I'm a horrible programmer )...
Next was a little Java (argh, I hate Java), then some basic C++ later (enough to make a console program but I forgot all of it by now)... ____________________ I dealt with it. |
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 Flurry Level: 37 Posts: 57/251 EXP: 315215 Next: 23038 Since: 02-19-07 From: Mirabel, Québec, Canada Last post: 6187 days Last view: 1820 days |
Flurry #&postrank& I started with HyperTalk (HyperCard's scripting language) in 1992-1993 (until 1997) when I was 9, on my old Macintosh when it wasn't old yet
Then I did some Pascal in 1997-1998, QBasic around that time (or a little before), got Visual Basic in 1998, learned PHP/MySQL in 2000-2001 then C++ in 2002 ... I also did a small amount of Java and Scheme at university, and Delphi once ____________________ |
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 Panser Level: 42 Posts: 61/338 EXP: 492565 Next: 28797 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 5518 days Last view: 4916 days |
If you can call TI-BASIC a language, that was my first one, back in 1999. I wrote a golf game in a week and later ported it to QBASIC (the source is still around here somewhere, but I'd prefer it never again saw the light of day ).
I now much rather prefer C++, the only other language I (partially) know. |
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 Bullet Bill Level: 50 Posts: 131/502 EXP: 891484 Next: 55833 Since: 02-20-07 From: Springfield, Ohio Last post: 6105 days Last view: 6082 days |
MY first language was Visual C++ 6.0, first learned in my senior year of High School back in 2002. I've since earned my Associates Degree in Software Programming in 2004. I learned Visual Basic 6.0, addition C++ 6.0, and Java using some outdated program.
I acquired Visual Studio 2005 professional last summer, and have had to reteach myself the standard on all the languages that I had already learned. ____________________ My current complication: Girl's name who gets no more than 10 minutes of screen time in the actual game. |
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 Red Cheep-cheep Level: 34 Posts: 26/216 EXP: 251637 Next: 2014 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 6094 days Last view: 6075 days |
A really, really awful variant of BASIC produced by Interplay (now defunct.)
Eventually I discovered Python (2002?), and used that for quite some time until I started using PHP (2006) and a little perl scripting (every now and then. )____________________ 
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 Cheep-cheep Level: 32 Posts: 30/189 EXP: 205956 Next: 486 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 6008 days Last view: 6000 days |
PHP (let's guess how I learned PHP, certainly not the same way as Xk)
But I've certainly come a long way since I first messed with Acmlmboards. Now I can do pretty much whatever I want in PHP, except with GD and other extensions like it. |
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 Red Goomba Level: 16 Posts: 13/35 EXP: 16411 Next: 3845 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6077 days Last view: 6075 days |
Commodore 64 BASIC in something like 1989. Of course, being about 5, I wasn't exactly putting out fantastic programs. Graduated to QBasic a few years later. Got intoduced to C++ in high school, then Java and C (and several others) in university. I took to C really quickly, and it's the language I do most of my programming in. |
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 Buster Beetle Level: 48 Posts: 7/469 EXP: 804906 Next: 18637 Since: 02-22-07 From: New York Last post: 5704 days Last view: 5704 days |
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 Red Paratroopa Level: 30 Posts: 38/163 EXP: 164957 Next: 912 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 5794 days Last view: 5785 days |
I started out with Javascript, then Perl. I've messed with pretty much every other language out there, but never really done anything with them. ____________________ "I'd like to confuse bok choy with cabbage." |
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 Fuzzy Level: 60 Posts: 246/778 EXP: 1720148 Next: 52630 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 2497 days Last view: 1658 days |
Right now Im learning Java...
Yeah, pretty much it 
I plan on learning something else next year. (I can actually read some PHP...) ____________________  |
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 Red Paragoomba Level: 19 Posts: 6/58 EXP: 35013 Next: 764 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 5841 days Last view: 5704 days |
the first programming language I ever messed with was 65816 Assembly for ROM hacking prupose
then came TI-Basic, it's good, but waay too slow , even on a TI-84SE, I wasn't even able to make a 2x2-pixel square move around the square at a decent speed
I also messed with various other assembly language (Z80, 6502, SuperFX) more recently, I attempted to mess with C# (since my brother got a Xbox360 and I wanted to program a few crap on it) |
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 Spike fuck~ Level: 58 Posts: 61/722 EXP: 1537773 Next: 39773 Since: 02-19-07 From: Pittsburgh, PA Last post: 5297 days Last view: 2585 days |
does Graalscript count?
I may have done some batch or basic stuff before then, but thats the first thing I really remember getting into. While its not really a programming language, a scripting language like that will teach you how to use syntax and such. ____________________ |
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Popo Level: 51 Posts: 289/539 EXP: 991804 Next: 22134 Since: 02-20-07 From: Kasuto Last post: 4796 days Last view: 4796 days |
I have been trying to learn 6502 Assembly for the last few months, but it's killing me more than anything. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 259/1881 EXP: 6465860 Next: 184804 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6153 days Last view: 6144 days |
I was never able to wrap my brain around ASM. There's just such a fundamental difference between it and higher-level languages, you have to think in bytes and loads and stores, and trying to do something as simple as multiply by a non-power of 2 or work with floating-point is a nightmare. |
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Spike Dragon Level: 57 Posts: 108/705 EXP: 1483815 Next: 2113 Since: 02-19-07 From: 
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Well, let's see...
I was 6 or 7 when I first started with QBasic, so ~1995-96. Next, I learned VB, but I can't exactly remember when. I think it was somewhere in 1997-98, when I got my first actual PC computer, so I was 8 or 9. Then somewhere in 1998 (age 9), I found a trial version of Klik & Play. Later, when I got a laptop with Windows 98 on it (same year), I got The Games Factory which was awesome, since it allowed *SCROLLING*!  So at this point, I took a break from programming.
This was also around the time I found Acmlm's Board. Later, I wanted an acmlmboard, and wanted to learn php, but I only learned some bare-bones basic stuff. That's pretty much what I know today, but anyway... Around 2000-2001 (age 11-12), I found the newer installment of KnP/TGF, called Multimedia Fusion. (by the way, KnP/TGF/MMF are all pretty much the exact same thing, all developed by the same company, but each successive program has more and more features than the previous one.) In 2003 (end of my freshman year in high school, age 15), I signed up to begin taking Computer Science (called Computer Mathematics) classes, starting next year (Sophomore year), so I knew we'd start with qbasic, so I started getting back into qb. My programming skills were greatly improved since I had practice making *games*, so I knew what I had to program to get the elements of a game working. 2004 (latter half of sophomore year, age 16), we finished qb, and went onto vb. I already knew vb, so I was amazingly great. Over the summer, I was still using MMF at this point. 2004 (beginning of junior year, still age 16), we started learning C++, which was my absolute first high-level language ever. I liked C++, so I started coding for fun in my spare time. Everyone in #rom-hacking was urging me to dump GDI in favor of SDL, so I did. I got SDL working great, actually, and I was getting some games working in it. I think I was still doing some occasional fooling around in MMF. 2005 (latter half of junior year, age 17), we started learning OpenGL. I did just fine, but I wasn't too into 3d programming, so I mostly stuck to 2d in my spare time. I still don't use OpenGL today, I just use SDL. I think at this point, I somewhat stopped using MMF. 2005 (beginning of senior year, still age 17), we started learning Java. I knew right from the start that this was the beginning of a wonderful, beautiful, ARRRGHHH relationship.  Java is strict, and I was so used to C++, but Java did things differently, and I generally don't like it. I still stuck with C++. Hell, my end-of-the-year project (somewhat buggy, incomplete, but if you want to try it out, go ahead) was written in C++ still, since we were allowed to use whatever language we wanted, even QB. Most people who used QB for their project mostly used it because you could do graphics in it. Since I was armed with the knowledge of SDL and doing graphics with it, I used C++.
Up to today, 2007, my second semester of college, my classes use Java, but I *still* do my 'hobby' programming in C++. And that's my history! ____________________  |
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 Melon Bug Level: 58 Posts: 49/732 EXP: 1569748 Next: 7798 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 4260 days Last view: 3519 days |
PHP, in 2003 or something like that |
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