What was the first programming language you learned?

Mallaboro · 03-08-2010, 03:35 PM

Tell me about it here. I just started learning C# and I'm interested in hearing peoples experiences and stories related to their first programming language.

Vengeancekael · 03-08-2010, 04:02 PM

Delphi (Pascal)
Now learning Java.

shiiK · 03-08-2010, 04:06 PM

Depends on what counts as learned and also how broad "programming language" is.. I'd go out on a limb and call XHTML, XML and HTML programming languages; thus HTML was my first. Otherwise the first language I truly learned is Java, and the first I used was LUA.

The Reborn Devil · 03-08-2010, 04:26 PM

The first I used and learned is HTML/XML/JavaScript(not that good on that one)/CSS.
The first I used but didn't learn, or almost learned (I understand it pretty good) was LUA.
Then came JASS if you can call that a programming language. After that vJASS then C++, and last but not least Java.

Hakeem · 03-08-2010, 04:31 PM

I don't consider markup languages to be programming languages. They are formats, really.

As such, JavaScript.

Mallaboro · 03-08-2010, 04:34 PM

I'm downloading Visual Studio at the moment. :) So I'll be using C# and XHTML.
HTML (and such) aren't programming languages, but scripts/codes. (I'm pretty sure thats what I was taught in college).

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Originally Posted by Hakeem

I don't consider markup languages to be programming languages. They are formats, really.

As such, JavaScript.

Ah, markup text, thats what I'm thinking of :P

Cyper95 · 03-08-2010, 04:43 PM

Mallaboro your right they aren't programming languages ;)
The one I'm learning = C#

The Reborn Devil · 03-08-2010, 04:47 PM

HTML basically stands for HyperText Markup Language, so it's just a markup language.
But it got a strict syntax you need to follow, so it can definitely be nice to have known when you move to other languages.

shiiK · 03-08-2010, 05:09 PM

Which is why I said I'd go out on a limb and name them as such. :P

Anyway, I never learned LUA, and I could never write a piece of code that would do anything all by myself in LUA. I only understand how to interpret what it does, and to manipulate the code into doing what I desire it to do. I also went along the Batch-hype, which again isn't a programming language, but more of an advanced do-this-and-that list. Later I actually studied Java, which is the only language I can claim to know. After that I've been learning C and C++.

Oh, and as for HTML having a strict syntax, eh.. only XHTML-Strict has a strict syntax. >:)

ED_Reborn · 03-08-2010, 05:25 PM

Currently learning java by internet tutorials. (Well, slow progress but it's something).

Really fun and I'll propably keep programming.

Mechanical Man · 03-08-2010, 08:23 PM

Qbasic

Cyper95 · 03-09-2010, 05:06 AM

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Originally Posted by The_Reborn_Devil

HTML basically stands for HyperText Markup Language, so it's just a markup language.
But it got a strict syntax you need to follow, so it can definitely be nice to have known when you move to other languages.

Indeed it is a "bonus" since it would most likely be a hell of a lot easier for any person to learn a programming language if they can HTML(And such like it).

Samuraid · 03-09-2010, 05:42 AM

Quick Basic

Lyerae · 03-10-2010, 12:37 AM

XHTML, CSS, PHP, in that order.
Then it's bits and pieces of languages like C#, C++, C, Python, Ruby, Perl, Java, Visual Basic, Lua, and a few others I can't think of the names at the moment.

YourNameHere · 03-10-2010, 04:20 AM

Started with Jass, then moved to vJass/zinc. I learned a bit of C++ meanwhile but never programmed anything serious. (Besides a namespoofer for Warcraft)