What was your first language?

[Dugbuzz]

I was just wondering what your guys' first programming language was. I am looking to sink some time into learning a language, and figured I could make a decision based on what I heard. Feel free to share more, or give me some advice.

[ZcanKal]

English.
(I know you meant coding language.)

[sillypenguin213]

Java, the first and the last. So long, programming.

[Dugbuzz]

1 minute ago, ZcanKal said:

English.
(I know you meant coding language.)

Ahaha, fixed. Thank you.

[Hashiba]

My first language at school was Basic, but because I didn't like it my professor allowed me to use C instead,

[Blade of Grass]

Started with Python when I was really young, but the first language I formally learnt was Visual Basic 6. From there I did JavaScript (own time), Java (own time), Racket, C, C++ and now am looking to branch into Go  

[Techicolors]

probably be hounded, but javascript

[dabhead]

Started with Python, then did a bunch of Shell Scripting(does that even count?) stuff, and am now trying to grasp C++. I've always wanted to learn 'brainfuck' because its so crazy looking but have no real world use case other than epeen growth..

 

"Hello World!" in bf:

++++++++[>++++[>++>+++>+++>+<<<<-]>+>+>->>+[<]<-]>>.>---.+++++++..+++.>>.<-.<.+++.------.--------.>>+.>++.

[kasugatei]

FIrst one was Logo and then Basic

[InMiseryWeSeekPancakes]

Python then I started doing a crap ton of batch ( win ) and bash ( linux ), later I learned html, css , javascript and then i started to grasp c, c++, c#.

[vorticalbox]

I started on html and then moved to php and started making browser text based games. After school I went to college i was taught visual basic, then I moved to Scotland and started on c#, got into college and that's what I used on amd off right up until I left uni. After uni I learned python and started selling python scripts over forums, I then was offered an interview for a nodejs job, spent a week learning node and rewrote my Twitter bot in node to show off in the interview.

 

Got a code test and was offered a job, now I am rewriting a financial CRM with some thing being deployed to aws fargate and other parts being in lambda.

 

The best advice I can give it find the area you want to go into, data science/ ai, games, websites etc and then learn the languages that are mostly widely used.

[MyName13]

Started with QBasic in elementary school because of programming competitions, quit soon because finding any good learning materials was near impossible, switched to visual basic and also quit soon, some time after I started learning Python and didn't quit.

[cluelessgenius]

C# in college. and the a little bit of almost everything else.

[chiller15]

HTML, PHP in college (which I was rubbish at and have never touched since). Then taught myself batch, VBScript and more recently Powershell. I think you can see that I only script.

[MyName13]

35 minutes ago, chiller15 said:

HTML, PHP in college (which I was rubbish at and have never touched since). Then taught myself batch, VBScript and more recently Powershell. I think you can see that I only script.

Do you work in information security field?

[chiller15]

5 minutes ago, MyName13 said:

Do you work in information security field?

No, education.

[porina]

First computer I got my hands on has BASIC so that was first. I tried self learning assembler on it without any progress, but I was about 10 years old at the time! Then there was a bit of a gap and later I self taught myself C, although only to a moderate level where I can use pointers to do some silly things.

[Dat Guy]

QBasic or Turbo Pascal, I can't remember anymore. However, I haven't touched Basic for almost two decades now, so I liked Pascal a lot more and I still do.

[Guest]

C

[JustMATT]

Mines a weird one, I first got into programming because I wanted to make mods for GMod, so, my first language was actually GMod Lua, then learnt a bit of html/css/js cuz why not, learnt python a bit at some point, then since I wanna get into game development I learned a bit of C# and I absolutely love it, planning on learning some C++ and Java tho. All self-taught so far.

[Dugbuzz]

9 hours ago, JustMATT said:

Mines a weird one, I first got into programming because I wanted to make mods for GMod, so, my first language was actually GMod Lua, then learnt a bit of html/css/js cuz why not, learnt python a bit at some point, then since I wanna get into game development I learned a bit of C# and I absolutely love it, planning on learning some C++ and Java tho. All self-taught so far.

Same actually, I was making stuff for DarkRP with GLua but it just got old so I started to learn HTML/CSS and am now looking into other languages.

[JustMATT]

2 hours ago, Dugbuzz said:

Same actually, I was making stuff for DarkRP with GLua but it just got old so I started to learn HTML/CSS and am now looking into other languages.

Seriously tho, DarkRP was the shit before all the kids got enough money for their own servers and killed off the game mode

[Dugbuzz]

12 hours ago, JustMATT said:

Seriously tho, DarkRP was the shit before all the kids got enough money for their own servers and killed off the game mode

Yea it was a great time.

[wasab]

Infant crying is my first. 

[Lent]

First language was Java, settled in C# and TypeScript, now learning Clojure, will maybe try my hand at Haskell.
Not a fan of Java.