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What's the first programming language that you learned?

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:01 pm
by superdezign
It dawned on me that, although PHP is a strong and flexible language, the majority of us didn't start our programming careers/hobbies in PHP, yet here we are.

What was the first language that you guys learned?
And what's the first language that supported OOP that you learned, if the two are different?

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:40 pm
by Weirdan
BASIC / C++

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:51 pm
by vigge89
PHP is the only language I could say that I know well, and will be the first language I learn OOP in (currently practising).
The first language I programmed in would however be Visual Basic (I started writing some applications in it when I was about 12 but I've never really learned the lanuage), but the last time I touched it would be about two years ago.
I've also picked up some C++ through school courses last year, but so far it's only been the basic stuff (and much of it I already knew from PHP - the syntax, some coding practices, etc.) but I've kept it to the two hours per week in school and done nothing at home.

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:52 pm
by TheMoose
Started with HTML, then delved into Javascript.

I took a C++ class in high school, and about a month into that, a classmate had showed us this PHP app he created to help take his code from home to class without using a disk, and I started learning PHP from there.

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:59 pm
by superdezign
TheMoose wrote:Started with HTML, then delved into Javascript.

I took a C++ class in high school, and about a month into that, a classmate had showed us this PHP app he created to help take his code from home to class without using a disk, and I started learning PHP from there.
:D :D
That's kinda cool! I have a friend who started PHP programming before me, but he never had anything to show for it. Not very inspiring. :lol:

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:09 pm
by John Cartwright
My first language was Turbo Pascal back which I learned in an intro to programming class in highschool..

That really brings me back, reminded me of my first program I ever completed -- which was a 2 player math game. The second application I wrote was a replication of a game called "slimer".. good times

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:27 pm
by Benjamin
BASIC

That was funny, you had to put numbers in front of each line.

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:34 pm
by superdezign
Jcart wrote:My first language was Turbo Pascal back which I learned in an intro to programming class in highschool..

That really brings me back, reminded me of my first program I ever completed -- which was a 2 player math game. The second application I wrote was a replication of a game called "slimer".. good times
Two-player mathematics? Whoa. How'd that work?

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:07 pm
by WaldoMonster
Basic on a Philips P2000 and later Basic on a Commodore 64.
That where the time's with the awful peek and poke if I remember correctly?

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:45 pm
by thiscatis
You're gonna spank me for this but the first language I learned:

Eiffel

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 11:42 pm
by matthijs
Must have been basic. Isn't that the language were you had to type the numbers before each rule? It was on a commodore 64 if I remember correctly.
10 if ..
20 GOTO 30 ..
30 etc

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:37 am
by timvw
I started with (Radio Shack) Basic.. And matthijs already gave an impression of it's syntax ;)

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:41 am
by JellyFish
GML. :D

I went on to PHP then JavaScript. JavaScript was the first language I really got all the concepts of programming.

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:00 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
BASIC on a Commodore 64. As I remember I did this program where the computer would ask questions and depending on sets of possible answers progress from there - a sort of AI (the version an 8-10 year old might think up). Those were good days - even if it did take forever to load up from a tape.

Anyone remember the TV output from a Commodore loading up taped programs? ;). I can only remember one game that flashed up a graphic and played music while loading.

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:16 am
by Chris Corbyn
JavaScript, then PHP. I don't really consider HTML to be a programming language, but if it is then I started with it.