What language did you start with?

**Stoned_Coder** · 08-31-2001

...so just what WERE you trying to do with that printer port...?

Up the voltage so as to power a robot i had built!

**Witch_King** · 08-31-2001

My first language was 'English', but I never mastered it.

**doubleanti** · 08-31-2001

ahhh!!! must...disinvolve...self...with...tech...jargon... ....

good say dean...

**Aran** · 08-31-2001

disinvolve, ehh?

*blinks*

*blinks again*

*blinks once more*

*blinks for the last time just for the dramatic effect*

*waits ten minutes*

*has to blink or his eyes will shrivel up*

*blinks*

must.......end.......post.....

*clicks on the button*

**DISGUISED** · 09-01-2001

I began programming with QBASIC as most people do. I quickly became bored and moved on to COBOL, which I consider the first language I really learned.

**bart** · 09-01-2001

basic for the bbc micro. then i did html, javascript, and c++.

i Treid c++ twice but the furst time i couldn't find anything for newbie's, tried C, found it boring, and quit. later i was trying to find a good DHTML cursus, and found a C++ cursus at cprogramming.com. found the bourd and here i am.

**Aran** · 09-01-2001

I started with PASCAL.

I would definitely suggest starting with PASCAL because it is easy enough to learn with limited amounts of time yet complex enough to do some more involved stuff...

Scourfish · 09-01-2001

Well, when I was born, I could make only a few coos and a lot of crying, but as I grew up, I learned how to say primitives such as "Mommy" and "Daddy" and "Poopoo". A little bit later I learned how to say "Mommy, Daddy, I made a poopoo." and it escalated from there. Currently, though, I'm working with Arnold J. Rimmer to learn how to speak Esperanto.

**mithrandir** · 09-02-2001

C, but I've learned a bit of Qbasic & Turbo Pascal. I'm moving onto Java next.

**sballew** · 09-02-2001

way back when before there was the MS explosion,
I learned BASIC on the ole Tandy
and then COBOL and RPG

now I am learning C and it is tough.

Trying out the Quiz in the Learning section on this site (which is mostly C++) was a bit of help to see what I get and don't get.
Got a 44% which is higher than I thought I would get.
1/2 the questions are purely C++ related and I am still learning the basics of C.

**Aran** · 09-02-2001

C++ is one of the most complex programming languages i have ever seen, ever.

Take your time with it or be prepared to fail.

(btw, i never actually looked at C, i went straight for C++ and didn't have much trouble.)

**Da Beav** · 09-02-2001

my first was VB and first program with it was a cool tic tac toe game. That was a while ago and then I got into Java (the devil IMHO) and now its C.

**Procyon** · 09-02-2001

I started with QBasic about 8 years ago, moved onto C after a few years and to C++ last year.

**Flikm** · 09-02-2001

Ughhh. Qbasic is horrible. I taught myself really, just got some examples and started RIPPING. qbasic.com helped a lot, too.

**bigtamscot** · 09-03-2001

Hi,
A year and a half a go I had never even knew how to turn on a pc...and stood on chairs when ever a mouse was around...Now I am windows proficient and can programme pascal and more than 1/2 way through a distance learning course on 'C' and will eventually move on to 'C++'. Not bad for someone not of the computing generation...under 35..