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What was the first programming language you learned?
And what are you using today?
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Somewhat in order, since ~2000, omitting front technologies (JS, html, etc):
I still use today:
Wow ... 2 decades of tech bath! You started the same year ECMAScripts's first stable version was launched. And things have changed like war in these 2 decades. Your journey must have been amazing!
Haha pretty much, yes :) Web technologies were mostly out of my radar until 2004 though (except for Flash).
It wrote code mostly for pleasure and student money back then, and I still have some code I wrote 15 years ago that I'm not very proud of :D
Professionally, I only used C++, C#, Python, Java, F#, JS/Typescript/node.
That said, I'm pretty sure the techs I listed would appear as "modern stuff" to some. Year 2k is not that far away !
You're talking about the time when there were no StackOverflow and good documentations, no YouTube tutorials. Great to e-meet you :)
no stackoverflow!?
how in the world were you guys able to center a div in a div? :)
Python was my first (not counting scratch 😂). Python is what I use today.
Yeah, the same thing I was discussing with Sandor. It's a great language indeed.
Exactly 😀
BASIC on the C64, then GW-BASIC on the PC. But it's with Turbo Pascal that I started getting more into it.
Nowadays it's largely C# and JavaScript.
Similarly, C64/C16/C+4 BASIC + assembly, then Turbo Pascal on PC, i386 assembly, C, C++, then Java, JS, PHP, C#.
Nowadays working mainly in PHP, learning Rust and Dart for fun and for widening my sight.
I also did some assembly on 8088 and SPARC, but just for fun (8088) and university (SPARC). That never amounted to anything but a frozen PC (8088 assembly) - lol. I forgot that I do have a web site that uses PHP. I rarely need to change the code these days. My stalled personal project is to rewrite it completely using ASP.NET Core.
I also did some COBOL and Modula-2, but never outside of school. I did some C++ and C++/CLI at work.
Definitely forgot a lot earlier. I guess my coffee is starting to kick in.
Yeah, I started learning Turbo Pascal as well in the very beginning. But later moved to Java Soon, due to its demand.
Java didn't come out until nearly 10 years later in my case. So there was some C, xBASE languages (dBASE III Plus, Clipper, FoxBase+/FoxPro) in the meantime. And SAS. I've never actually worked with Java.
Javaproject in Internship.C#in work. I like it because,C#is making developer life easier with tooling support ofVisual Studio and VS Code.If we don't count Logo, I started with Turbo Pascal. Today I mostly use C++ and Python.
Python really has come a long way. Nowadays I see folks starting with Python and staying Python forever.
And C++, unbeatable as always.
C++ was introduced to me by my fathers cousin. I currently hang on JVM stack with Kotlin, Java and Groovy.
But let's put it in some order:
And of course besides of mandatory ones for job or school, played with VB as a kid, later Ruby and Go. Planing on checking out more languages like Rust just for fun. I would love to write my own language following "Nand to Tetris" just to get an overview of the things I'm missing at some places :D.
My first language was BASIC back in the late 80s. I'm not completely sure what version of BASIC it was, but I remember making text adventure games with my sister and father on our home PC and having a lot of fun doing it.
The first language I learned that I still use today is Javascript, which I learned when it was new in the mid-90s when I was in high school. Naturally, I use it for much different things nowadays.
The first language I learned "the right way" according to some snobs I've worked with through the years (meaning I learned it in a college classroom) was C++. I never really used it after leaving college but learning it definitely opened my eyes to how programming works under the hood.
The first language I learned that I fell in love with while learning it was Python, which I learned in the mid 00's. I still love using it today even though its not something I use at work (unfortunately). It's my daily driver for my home projects, despite a lot of my programmer friends thinking you should be using JS for everything!
Since 1983:
At the moment - mostly Javascript and Python, some PHP
All self taught from age 7
Rough order of what languages I ‘learned’ (excluding data-only stuff like YAML or JSON and purely presentational languages like HTML and CSS):
In theory, I’ve not ‘learned’ but can still kind of understand most C family languages, Erlang, PHP, Ruby, Pascal, FORTRAN, ALGOL, PERL, and Go.
Of all of that, the only ones I actually work with regularly today are Python, POSIX sh, and more recently Elixir, though I still make occasional use of many of the others.
I don't really think that PL/SQL is considered a programming language but it's the first one I used (in a job).
In the university, we were taught a bit of Pascal and C++, but it was never comprehensive.
I'm a Java developer now. I also use a bit of JavaScript of course (who doesn't these days?!).
I started using Java as a first programming language, but then I move fast to other languages specifically php and js. I haven't use Java at all since I got out of my two intro to programming courses at college. Today I am using js including its framework angular and RoR. I used C/C++ and Python. I have done some assembly and drRacket [dunno if it's spelled correctly]. Now, I am focusing on web development alot till i get myself mastered in it.
My first general purpose programming language is Visual Basic 6.0. The first program I made on my own, excluding examples from books, is a typewriter game (2002).
Source code and binary: github.com/yoursunny/code2014/tree...
Screencast: twitter.com/yoursunny/status/82845...
Before that, I learned PC-LOGO and FoxBASE in elementary school (1997), but I did not realize that these were programming languages.
If we don't count Turbo Pascal from the early days, I learned Java in Engineering School. Used it for a long time in my career but transitioned to the web last years and use now mostly JavaScript (Stencil, Angular, React, Typescript).
hmm I started with Java in high school. Learned Java in University (also Python), and continued with Java and Javascript today.
I have never touched C or C++ other then for assignments in university. I always say it would be nice to dabble with C one day...but that day never happens...
I started with HTML. It was fast and easy to see the results as I already had the browser installed. Then I found out about Arduino and met with C. Tried some C++ and desktop applications but my heart fell head first into embedded projects. Now I'm an embedded software developer and still use C and C++ with a little Python if needed.