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Discussion on: What was your first programming language and why?

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Seth Corker

I remember QuickBasic!
What got you interested in programming and are there any lessons from QuickBasic that you carry with you?

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Daniel Coturel

Hi Seth,
I was then 8 or 9 years old. The thing that motivated me was my uncle's example. He is a physics teacher, but knew stuff about programming. Back then, he had some stuff he programmed and it was very impressing, at least for a child. So I started looking in docs and made little programs.
I don't really remember much of that code, because three years later started diving in Java.

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Seth Corker

Thanks for your story, I'm always interested in how people get started and what their influences are. Thanks for sharing.