What was the first programming language you learned?

[KansasSooner]

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]

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

 

[calsnowskier]

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]

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]

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.

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]

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]

Which editor are you planning on using?

Sorry for late response, not sure yet

 

[Lions=TeHsUcKs]

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

Sorry for late response, not sure yet

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

 

[Rockinkuwait]

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

 

[Lions=TeHsUcKs]

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.

 

[Golden Spur]

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

 

[KansasSooner]

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]

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.