Comments on: Poll: First Programming Language?

By: Grant Anderson

Grant Anderson — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:32:25 +0000

As a freshman engineering major I bought the programming manual for my HP48gx calculator. I liked programming it more than any other work I was doing. I got such bad grades I switched to Computer Science the next year.

By: Dais

Dais — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:27:26 +0000

My first was BASIC on Vector-06C, an old soviet PC with CPU analog of 8088.

By: Michael Hoskins

Michael Hoskins — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:01:06 +0000

BASIC on the Commodore 64, then to the Apple IIe. Like cygnl7 above, I tried using the code from 3-2-1 Contact, then found a book on sprite programming for the C-64.

By: cygnl7

cygnl7 — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:57:32 +0000

Basic on an Apple IIc running ProDOS. Most of it was me, as a kid, copying code out of books but I did try to learn it. Those were the days.

By: Web Monster

Web Monster — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:35:46 +0000

My first was Compass Assembler on a Control Data Cyber 6600.

By: Pharao

Pharao — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:50:25 +0000

my first one was Q-Basic (MSDos) on a Cyrix 100MHZ 4MB Ram Peacock Notebook of my dad

By: phoenyx

phoenyx — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:21:05 +0000

The first programming language I learned was BASIC (on a TI 99/4A), but the first programming language I ever did anything cool with was Hypertalk.

By: Karl Lattimer

Karl Lattimer — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:00:26 +0000

I first started on basic at the age of 8 on a BBC model B microcomputer. Those were the days, but if Logo really is a programming language I learned that too, although logo I learned in about 20 minutes basic took a while longer. After years without my own computer the next time I had a machine to work on I played with QBASIC on windows 95, shortly followed by C/C++ using Borland Turbo C++ V3 (now that was a great language DOS meant a different thing back then). Moving on I was forced to ‘learn’ pascal but as I already worked in C it was more of a translation of skills to an inferior language. I went on to learn perl then php, then python, although in between I’ve spent time in java, javascript, bash, prolog, vb and so so many others. What I’ve learned from this, they’re all basically the same, except for basic, which is crap.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:24:39 +0000

My first language was BASIC on an Atari 800. After that came BASIC and Turbo Pascal on the Apple II, and then BASIC and Turbo Pascal on the early IBM PCs.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:11:47 +0000

Basic is the obvious winner on this poll, which I figured would happen. It’s interesting to see how the rest of the languages play out, though. I figured C would have been more popular as a first language, then Pascal, for example.

By: Xubuntix

Xubuntix — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:22:09 +0000

We had Borland Delphi ( I think it’s some sort of Pascal) in School, of cause on Windows.
In University we first learned Scheme.
Today I maily use Perl and C, of cause on Linux only

By: Donk

Donk — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:04:22 +0000

68000 assembler

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:10:19 +0000

Basic on the local college system, used at upper school via acoustic coupler to our teletype! Later Basic on BBC Micro, Pascal at Uni. Various others since then

By: leopold faschalek

leopold faschalek — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:57:16 +0000

my first prog. language was FOCAL on a PDP-8e followed by FORTRAN on an IBM Mainframe, both back in school around 1974-76.

later followed Commodore Basic and 6502 assembler.

now its C / C++ / C# and Java

By: NiKo

NiKo — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:01:26 +0000

Basic on a Thomson MO5.

10 PRINT Hello
20 PRINT World
30 GOTO 10