Ok Which was very your first programming language?

[Mike Winiberg]

FORTRAN, on an ICL 1903, in 1972/3, whilst in the 6th form We had to write out our programs on ICT coding sheets (I still have a few as a memento!) and submit them to the County Council mainframe, we got the results back 1n the next lesson (a week later!)

[Anna Jayne Metcalfe]

AppleSoft Basic on (I kid you not) an Apple ///. Once my Dad added Z-80 CP/M 2.2 co-processor I was off into the realms of assembler, JRT Pascal and Small-C. :thumbsup:

Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"

[rmovchan]

ALGOL 60, in 1977.

[Oshtri Deka]

Basic on outdated Apple|| compatible machine, then QBasic on 286 machine, that was during secondary education. Both courses were part of compulsory curriculum and sucked, though I've learned how to make never-ending loop. Therefore I consider Fortran as my first programming language (entry-level college course), because I actually learned something.

[Stefan_Lang]

Pascal, in Octobre 1984, at University. The biggest program I did was a fully workable board game called Kalah, based on a programming task we were given to program a min-max game tree for the same. At about the same time I purchased my first real computer, the C=ommodore(TM) Plus 4, but I never dabbled into Basic programming until after I've learned the basics (pun not intended, but appreciated). Spent considerably more time on 6502 Assembler than Basic though. The only Basic program I ever wrote was a Tetris Clone on "Micro Basic", the only compiler for the C=+4 I could find at the time.

[xiecsuk]

My first was Algol (I think) on an Elliot 803 in 1962. I then progressed to Fortran. Later, for fun, it was Basic on the Spectrum. And today it's C# and ASP.NET in Visual Studio 10.

[Eaverae]

Philips Cassette BASIC. Used it to program games (although I had no idea what programming was at the time) on a P2000T. Awesome computer.

"My opinion is not represented by my hometown."

[Harry Neethling]

Started in school with Java, and used Ready to program with Java 1.7.1 I think.

[Jono7AC]

ZX BASIC on a Sinclair ZX-81.

[hhexo]

The first language I used to write a non-trivial program was (Quick)Basic, in 1991, I think. I wrote a text-based adventure game and a little program that did some basic math, to do my school homework for me. ;-) Laziness for the win. I was 11 at the time... good times. Later on in the early '90s I hacked a couple of games (infinite lives!) by running them in DOS's "debug", so I dabbled with x86 assembler. Then I moved on to Visual Basic and Hexen-C (the C-like scripting language for modding the game Hexen), and then started doing proper programming in C and C++.

-+ HHexo +-

[RogelioP EX DE HL]

Norm .net wrote:

What was yours?

Motorola 6800 Assembly back in 1980 :cool: -- RP

[Alexander DiMauro]

TI-Basic (1981) on a TI-99/4A. I miss that computer... :^)

I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.

[Magnamus]

Microsoft Basic and 6502 assembly on a CBM4016. (I didn't learn Pick Databasic, Proc & TCL until much later, although mine was ADDS not MD)

[Ron Harshbarger]

Hmmm. 1963, Fortran,mainframe, punch cards, argh! How did we survive?

[John du Preez]

Microsoft Color Basic on a TRS-80 Color Computer in 1982. Upgraded by chip to Microsoft Extended Color Basic. Then also in the 80's Microsoft Extended Basic on a Spectravideo MSX 728. 30 years later i'm using exactly the same string manipulation language in Visual Basic.NET Framework 4.5. Cool huh? Assember, Pascal, C++ have come and gone in the interim.

codito ergo sum

[EinA]

APL and Basic on an IBM 360 in Angle Park High School in about 1974 - using optical mark cards. No PC in those days but later built my own Apple IIe and had a TRS-80 - I think the floppy drives for that last one cost me $1200?

[eFotografo]

Commodore Basic on a VIC 20 (1980/1981), but after about 6 months I began mixing that with 6502 assembler (anybody remember "poke"? Those were the days, writing out 6502 assembler on paper, converting the opcodes into hex, typing them into "data" statements and looping over the lot, "poke"ing into memory :-))

[dszarkow]

FORTRAN IV, coded using punched cards, executed on an IBM 360 mainframe, circa 1965. With luck, I got two or three compiles accomplished each evening. It took about a week to get each programming assignment finished. You punched your code using a keypunch machine, added some system control cards, wrapped the stack with a rubber band and dropped it in a hopper. Eventually the system's operator fed your cards into a card reader, and returned them to you wrapped in one or more sheets of green/white paper containing your program's results. The work was done for an electrical engineering course titled "Numerical Methods and FORTRAN Programming". Since then, I've never had a job where I didn't have access to "personal computing" power!

Donald S. Szarkowicz, Ph.D. E-mail: dszarkow@hotmail.com

[Magnamus]

> anybody remember "poke"? ...and "peek"! Didn't the video RAM start at 1024 on the VIC20? I used PETs where it started at 32768. Wow - geek attack...

[Andrew Leeder]

Algol 60 on an Elliot 803 in 1967.