What was the first programming language you learned?

What was the first programming language you learned? What was the second?

Basically ... write in a few words when and how did you get into coding.

Top comments (21)

Tim Downey • Jun 16 '20

When I was a kid I played around with HTML and CSS a bit... not really programming, but contributed to an Animal Crossing fan site and forum. 😂

The first true programming language I learned was Scheme in C211 at Indiana University. I remember being frustrated at the time at the lack of constructs like for loops, but now appreciate getting exposed to functional paradigms early on.

(cons 'Hello 'World)

Borja Herrero • Jun 17 '20

It was QBasic. My dad use had a few programming magazines and you could copy the code from there to get a full working game. So I spent hours typing just to realise that I had misspelt something and it wouldn't work, so I had to start over.

It was so much fun.

SoftwareDevPro • Jun 15 '20

For me it was BASIC, and I learned on an Apple 2 GS (which cost around $2000 back then), and the second language it was Pascal, in the 7th grade my mom got me into a community college for audit (they wouldn't let me take it for credit because of my age).

Kevin Sullivan • Jun 16 '20

Autohotkey. Made some utilities to help with video editing and data entry. Wasn't until later that I wanted to make an app for someone else that I realized some formal training at a bootcamp would help set me in a good direction.