What was your first language?

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Python. Now I'm mainly a Java person and occasionally I'll use C/C++ if I have to. Spent a short time using assembly.

[Nutler]

Started with Java but soon moved to C, asm and C++. Learned JS, Python and various other languages during the following years.

 

C++, Python and JS are the ones that I currently use the most.

[Beskamir]

I started with Python.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Visual Basic 6.0 and TI BASIC.

 

Had to start somewhere.

[Rainfall]

I started with good old Visual Basic watching "hacking tutorialz" (sigh). We don't talk about those dark days.

 

A few months later I gave up on that pain and started doing other more general stuff, including GTA San Andreas mods with CLEO and SCM Scripting (a Rockstar-made language that other modders somehow uncovered).

 

Later went for Java and other C-like/Java-like languages, where I ammost fluent now.

[FerretNexus]

Python, then C# becuase unity.

[SilicateWielder]

While I dabbled a little with BATCH and Lua when I was really young, I think my first language was BASH, I started learning it when I was 11, I believe, any programming prior to that was either dabbling in those two languages or doing some somewhat complex stuff in Scratch, I remember even creating a "simulated fantasy OS" in that

 

I currently program in primarily JS for Sphere, and C++, I'm currently hopping back and forth between to two

[EG!]

Started screwing around with vba in excel in high school

[theZyrael]

Python, after that HTML, now CSS and after that Java

[geo3]

My intro to programing class used VB6 but that was more of a tool to learn programing concepts. The first languages I actually learned and used were C and C++.

[impure]

In high school they taught us in this language called Turing. I don't even remember any of the syntax for it. I looked at one of my high school projects the other day and I was like, "what is this gibberish?"

[Mira Yurizaki]

8 minutes ago, impure said:

In high school they taught us in this language called Turing. I don't even remember any of the syntax for it. I looked at one of my high school projects the other day and I was like, "what is this gibberish?"

The problem of looking at old code (old being 3+ months) and trying to understand it is a fun one

[TopHatProductions115]

Started in HTML/JS/CSS, transitioned to Php/SQL, settled on C/C++. Started learning ASM when my OS project began. Went on to pick up Java while in college. Still learning ASM...

[wONKEyeYEs]

On 7/19/2018 at 8:30 PM, Dugbuzz said:

first programming language

Fortran.

The computer wasn't in the next room,

it was the next room.

[DimasRMDO]

Python was my first, then I tried Ruby, Java, and C#.

[bover21]

I started with PHP, then Java then C, C# and C++. I also picked up javascript somewhere.

[Franck]

I personally picked up in a span of 2-3 weeks 2 language which are Basica and Quick Basic. Ended up with Quick Basic as my favorite.

Yes that was before HTML was invented.

Yes for internet i had to take the actual phone and put it on the modem so it could communicate by sound.

600 baud FTW

[cynexit]

On 7/26/2018 at 12:08 AM, M.Yurizaki said:

Visual Basic 6.0 and TI BASIC.

 

Had to start somewhere.

I also started with VB6, looking back it is horrible, but back then it was pure magic.

 

EDIT: Just read the OP, so obvious disclaimer: DON'T LEARN VB6! Start with something easy like Java, C# or Go and then try something like Scala or Rust to learn new, more advanced concepts.

[ProfessorZoom]

I believe I started with Java when I was trying to make Minecraft server plugins years and years ago.

[Ilyvert]

On 20-7-2018 at 2:44 AM, Blade of Grass said:

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  

Isn't Go for Google only?

[Xplo1t]

Basic on my own and then both Visual Basic 3.0 and C++ in the first few years of college.  Also took a course on COBOL and Fortran.  

 

In the work environment I started with RPG IV, C++, Classic ASP, VB.Net/C# and SQL (P/SQL and T-SQL mostly).

 

Since then I have probably touched a little bit of everything and still like to code but it doesn't make much as a primary profession.

[Karthikeyan Vaithilingam]

Mine was BASIC in a Chinese knock off NES clone which had C64 Basic in it..

[Cryptic274]

C# for me, just started working on APEX though

[2FA]

Java in technicality, though I wouldn't call that experience learning it then. C would probably be more accurate.

[Blade of Grass]

On 2018-08-22 at 8:48 AM, Ilyvert said:

Isn't Go for Google only?

No! It’s gained quite a decent following in the industry.