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Discussion on: Which is your First programming language ?

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Jon Randy πŸŽ–οΈ • Edited

Sinclair BASIC on the ZX Spectrum... 1983

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Monty Harper

I can one-up you on that. I started with BASIC on the ZX81, precursor to the ZX Spectrum, which I also got later!
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Jon Randy πŸŽ–οΈ

I guess in a way, I probably got the programming bug a few years earlier. Technically you could write programs on this, but it was hardly Turing complete! πŸ˜›

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Priya Bapodra

Okay, i am not familiar with language but i will try learn for sure ! Thank you for sharing your opinion! :)

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Abhinav Kulshreshtha

Mine was GW-Basic and Q-Basic. around 1996. I still think those were better beginners programming language than scratch or all these low-code no-code bulls**t

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chikega

It's good to see that Q-Basic lives on in modern iterations such as QB64 PE with a C++ backend.

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mortylen

I didn't expect to see it here, I started with it too. I had a compatible version of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum called Didaktik. It was made in Europe in Slovakia.