What was your first language?

Getting into programming and first language

[Pascaline]

Hi, my name's Pascaline, nice to meet you.

I was wondering how you started out in the programming world? What were the first things you learned? Did you have a mentor or an online tutorial? :)

[Leosghost]

FORTRAN and COBOL in 1973/74..and many years later HTML and some Javascript and PHP..light smatterings of others..

[lorax]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld Pascaline!

My first language was assembly level for the 8080 processor. Then Basic -> Cobol with a touch of Fortran.

Took a break and then dabbled with AutoCAD's script language and jumped into Javascript, ColdFusion, Pascal, Delphi, and ActionScript for Flash. Then I drank the PHP koolaid.

No mentors though I did learn a lot by hanging out with real programmers. They taught me a lot - especially the need to write my own test routines and how to troubleshoot broken code. Some of the best nights were spent staying up late drinking and chasing typos down in code blocks.

[Top for the Good]

Hi, my name's Pascaline, nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you too!

How to make bordering for previous message?

[lucy24]

Hi, my name's Pascaline, nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you too!

How to make bordering for previous message?

Is that what you meant? Style codes such as [ quote ] aren't visible in "Quick Reply" mode until you hit Preview.

Come to think of it, is there a "Slow Reply" lurking somewhere else? Don't remember ever seeing it.

[blend27]

1990 FORTRAN - Best in Class. I have 4 punch cards framed on the wall till now.

@lorax
ColdFusion. -- Then I drank the PHP koolaid.

I still refuse that coolaid. CF Rocks.

[RedBar]

Basic, late 70s on a Commodore PET, then Sinclair stuff and by the mid 80s Mallard Basic using Locoscript on the infamous Amstrad.

[LifeinAsia]

I still refuse that coolaid. CF Rocks.

I've sipped the Kool-aid and use PHP some (mostly for working with Drupal).

I still prefer CF, but have been migrating some things to PHP, simply because of licensing costs (although have been playing around with Railo) and the much larger pool of PHP programmers (with the long-term intention of handing off most of the development to others so I can focus on other things).

yes, I did spend hours on Sunday mornings typing in magazine listings - it's more or less that activity, that taught me to type at a reasonable speed..

That's how I was introduced to/first learned FORTRAN- my boss needed a huge (maybe 30+ pages?) FORTRAN program typed in (not sure if it was from a magazine or book). I also had a book that I referenced to understand the different pieces of the code.

[Avilti]

Quick Basic was my first, I believe.

[bird]

Hyperscript
Autolisp
C
Oberon (for some exercises)
Python
A little C++
Python
Some Javascript for Web2.0 stuff
Python

Oh, did I mention Python? Especially since you were asking about a good language for learning.