What was the first programming language you learned?

KansasSooner · Jan 14, 2016

calsnowskier said:
I learned SQL and HTML in college, and I fell in love with SQL which got me into DB programming (I abandoned HTML).

I hated DB programming, hell if there wasn't at least one square root or trig function involved it wasn't programming to me...and throw in some analytical geometry and calculus just for giggles.

KansasSooner · Jan 14, 2016

Probably why I gave up on system programming too. That and all the messy code...

calsnowskier · Jan 14, 2016

KansasSooner said:
I hated DB programming, hell if there wasn't at least one square root or trig function involved it wasn't programming to me...and throw in some analytical geometry and calculus just for giggles.

Amazing how different brains work.

I love the order of how data is stored and the different logic and strategies employed in pulling information out of that data.

RP-29 · Jan 15, 2016

TP76 said:
5-1/4" floppies - amazing how far we've come. I just bought a 64GB MicroSDXC for my rasberry pi2 project - 64GB, would translate to 189,000 5-1/4 floppies.

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Also amazing how much file size is used now. Back when I started, if a program I wrote hit triple digits in KB it was huge. In contrast, last night I upgraded my PlayStation 4 hard drive to 2 TB because 500 GB was already consumed.

RP-29 · Jan 15, 2016

KansasSooner said:
I hated DB programming, hell if there wasn't at least one square root or trig function involved it wasn't programming to me...and throw in some analytical geometry and calculus just for giggles.

calsnowskier said:
Amazing how different brains work.

I love the order of how data is stored and the different logic and strategies employed in pulling information out of that data.

I enjoy both database and application programming and I have used them both regularly. Both fortunately and unfortunately, I'm having less and less time to program as I migrate to full-time management.

KansasSooner · Jan 15, 2016

RP-29 said:
I enjoy both database and application programming and I have used them both regularly. Both fortunately and unfortunately, I'm having less and less time to program as I migrate to full-time management.

I didn't do application programming in the modern sense, rather it was mathematical modeling programming of machines and such.

Sgt Brutus · Jan 19, 2016

4down20 said:
Which editor are you planning on using?

Sorry for late response, not sure yet

Lions=TeHsUcKs · Jan 22, 2016

I learned Qbasic, fortran and pascal in high school. College for me was all about C++ and C.

Sgt Brutus said:
Sorry for late response, not sure yet

If you want the big bucks you get a version of Linux and program in Bash.

Rockinkuwait · Feb 10, 2016

Basic then QBasic... Then Turbo Pascal in HS.

Lions=TeHsUcKs · Feb 12, 2016

Lions=TeHsUcKs said:
If you want the big bucks you get a version of Linux and program in Bash.

Sorry learn scripting with the VIM or emacs editor. Huge money in that specialization.

JohnShadows · Feb 19, 2016

Pascal. Don't do it. Learn right, with OOP (Java/C++, though it depends on what you're trying to do).

KansasSooner · Feb 19, 2016

GoldenSpur said:
Pascal. Don't do it. Learn right, with OOP (Java/C++, though it depends on what you're trying to do).

Today it is almost imperative you learn OOP from the jump. I remember changing from FORTRAN/Pascal type coding in the 90's to OOP style. It is completely different in how you structure a lot of code, but I still used Dr. Andre's advice, make it work first, then add the eye candy.

fastforward · Mar 15, 2016

I started with Basic in school in the '80s. I wrote some really good game software at the time. Then I left school and didn't touch a computer for 15 years. If i'm number-crunching probabilities i'll sometimes write a program in QBasic to do it for me. No programming skills beyond that.

What was the first programming language you learned?

KansasSooner

Aces & eights

KansasSooner

Aces & eights

calsnowskier

Sarcastic F-wad

RP-29

xⁿ

RP-29

xⁿ

KansasSooner

Aces & eights

Sgt Brutus

Goober

Lions=TeHsUcKs

Basketball School

Rockinkuwait

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Lions=TeHsUcKs

Basketball School

JohnShadows

Bayesian

KansasSooner

Aces & eights

fastforward

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