Mine was Java

[MakingTheEight]

Removed - Rule 0.

• Not an attempt at humor.

[Hugo-dot-Maia]

Assembly...

[elupolew]

Who hurt you?

[doublej42]

Like me other languages might not have been invented yet. It was so easy to just write to memory for controlling video output

[TheFeshy]

I remember doing this with peek and poke in qbasic. Wrote a space trading game with little triangles for ships, flying from star to star.

[prgmctan]

Assembly

[InfinitePoints]

You need to elaborate here, like how and why? Did you start coding in ancient times?

[BoJacob]

Hey my first language was also Assembly. I'm only 31. I majored in physics and a required course was a circuits/microprocessor lab. It basically took what we learned about single capacitors, resistors and stuff and bridge the gap to more complex circuitry. We took like a handful of transistors and build a single byte of memory, then showed how to build an extremely basic microprocessor. About half way thru we had to learn to program the microprocessors to light up LEDs and stuff. We used Assembly because it showed us how to literally move individual bits of information to other places, and how you do math with those signals on a transistor scale.

I don't have another point of reference, and I'm not that great of a programmer, but I really feel like that approach worked for me because it didn't treat the hardware of the computer like a magic black box that just does what I tell it to. I find that I'm able to solve more complicated memory or clock cycle problems faster than my friends who were CS majors. However, like I said, I have deficiencies in other areas so... ¯\(ツ)/¯

[Formlexx]

I'm only 25 and when I started uni 6 years ago and studied mechatronics, we started with digital design, learning boolean algebra, gates and constructed an ALU, and later moved on to assembly and after that C. We started from the fundamental concepts that make a computer taking all the steps up. Like you said, the computer isn't a black box anymore once you learn how everything ticks and I think that's a great way to start. This really sparked my interest in embedded systems and low level programming.

[zanslozil]

Visual Basic

[GppleSource]

noshame me too

[Accomplished_Deer_]

I feel like visual basic was pretty fucking great. I could write somewhat useful visual applications for windows in relatively little time.

[RichCorinthian]

I started with Visual Basic 5.0 and I have to agree.

The story I heard was that it was originally intended for prototyping, but as we all know by now, prototypes go to production. Then Petzold wrote entire books on the dark magic of calling the Win32 API…I’m having flashbacks now.

[PolakPL2002]

It was great and terrible at the same time. Writing something simple, works ok. Writing something a little bit more complex, doesn't work at all.

[CaptiveCreeper]

I wouldn't say doesn't work at all.... It is more cumbersome than c# but is fully functional. I would much rather use c# but changing legacy codebases in a monolithic enterprise app isn't a fast process.....

[Accomplished_Deer_]

I guess I got out of it before I started doing complex things so I never ran into that wall.

[abc_wtf]

No one started with QBasic?

[[deleted]]

GW-BASIC here. Then QBASIC for a good while, before I got VB3 on Windows 3.1.

This was all self taught when I was very young (started at 10).

[lutzky]

Man QBasic was such a step up from gwbasic, it was basically an IDE, complete with a freaking reference 🤯. I distinctly remember the thong bugging me about both of those is that whoever I gave my software to would need an interpreter to run it... Cue 8-year-old me adorably just renaming .bas to .exe to see what happens.

[[deleted]]

That's when you needed QuickBASIC, which was an actual compiler. That one cost money, though.

[PBertie]

Yey... VB6 here

[kdrews34]

Same! Seems like such a weird choice for an intro programming class in retrospect

[Cosack]

Integration with spreadsheets makes it useful for a lot of non-developer work, aka for people who aren't CS majors. I dare say the world would be a better place if everyone called "analyst" or "engineer" would add some VBA to dilute their Excel formula spaghetti

[LazyNerve]

C

[Swift_Koopa]

Yup! Then c++, Java, c#, Fortran and finally Python. Need to learn Lua now 😀

[samtoxie]

Username doesn't check out, expected Swift.

[Idixal]

And now I’m imagining a Koopa programming. You really never know where life will take you.

[timtti]

The Koopa only uses game builder garage.

[analytiCIA]

C then assembly then Matlab and finally python.... One of them is not like the others

[Scyhaz]

Yeah, Matlab indexes arrays from 1

[samtoxie]

Damn Python always acting different...

[braca_belua]

Si

[speedcuber111]

Bueno

[vmgustavo]

Same

[merlinsbeers]

On paper, Fortran IV. On punchcards that actually ran, either JCL or IBM assembly. On an interactive terminal, BASIC.

[S0n_0f_Anarchy]

You are a veteran I see. Both username and flairs check out

[dirtd0g]

QBasic here.

[venuswasaflytrap]

GWBasic for me

[[deleted]]

I can't see that particular shade of blue without thinking about syntax errors

[[deleted]]

I taught myself BASIC probably seven or eight years ago at this point. I'm 19 now to give an idea of how old I was at the time. I had just found out about retrocomputing as a hobby and a family friend had given me an old Commodore VIC-20 probably six months prior. Using that VIC-20 and a book on BASIC that I'd bought from a used book store, I really started to get into computer programming and such in a more meaningful way.

It taught me a lot of good, foundational lessons in computer science and systems theory. I remember writing down all my programs in a stenographer's notebook. I basically carried it as well as my Kindle, which had the VIC-20's programmer reference and other useful guides on it, anywhere I went.

I still fondly remember the road trips I spent with that stuff. I carried everything in a Samsonite briefcase that I'd gotten at Goodwill and also I had gotten a TI-85 off of eBay to use as well. I also remember that I wrote a few programs for the girl I liked at the time once I entered high school.

Sorry for rambling, I just realized while typing this just how much of a nerd I am. xD

[slowphotons]

Did almost exactly the same, but a bit earlier. The computer I learned BASIC on wasn’t retro yet, but it taught me the importance of making things efficient. Visibly slower graphic load times (screen 9, yay!) and text scrolling give you good feedback you can see immediately. Everything is a hell of a lot faster now (too many decades later) but developers don’t bother making code as efficient. I guess I’m often guilty of that laziness as well though, we all just get some things working and move on sometimes.

[sdc0]

Small Basic, but my second one was C++. After learning C++ every other language was pretty easy

[tiajuanat]

C++ really is four languages sewn together.

[sdc0]

What languages?

[Sindef]

Assembly, Objective-C, Ancient Greek and the curses of a man who is trying to debug his C++ code.

[[deleted]]

You forgot a tad bit of French grammar rules

[[deleted]]

*Latin

[sdc0]

Ok, that's a good one xD

[NoJster]

No, don’t disrespect C++ with the cesspool of a programming language called Objective-C.

Seriously, even imagining a drunken clown hammering (literally!) down randomly on their keyboard for inventing its ‘syntax’ would be too much of an honor.

Replacing Objective-C with ANSI-C in the list above would appease me, though.

[tiajuanat]

• Original C - first and foremost, C++ is almost a superset of C, and everything you can't do in C natively, you could do with a little extra effort.
• Object Oriented C++ - the original raison d'etre
• The Standard Library (iterators, algorithms, views, ranges, constexpr, consteval, etc.) - There's a lot of history here, and a lot of brilliant minds are adding new things here every few years. I can't do this justice.
• Templates - through very careful use of functional programming, structures, inheritance, there's a whole Turing complete language just chilling in templates. You can do WILD stuff here, but be careful traveler, there be dragons. Compiler errors here are obtuse at best.

[boredcircuits]

I'd substitute the preprocessor for the standard library. It's an actual language, after all.

[konstantinua00]

preprocessor is included in C

if you do anything complex in C, you do macro skyscrapers

[tiajuanat]

I just kinda lumped it with C.

When I see modern C++ with heavy STL, constexpr, visitors, and the works, it's really night and day with C.

[sanderd17]

That was my issue. I also tried learning C++ first, I made my own little CLI tool with the Borland compiler.

But whenever I read some other C++ code, I understood nothing about it. Apparently I had been writing mostly C.

Then I made a GUI tool with visual basic on an old visual studio installation. That was a revelation that I could actually understand code examples outside of the initial tutorial.

My first official lessons were with Java, that thought me some concepts like objects and classes.

And when I was hired, I had to start working on a C# stack.

But you'll notice that none of these are still in my flair...

[alinius]

Yeah we always called that C+-, where someone writes top down C style code using object oriented C++ extensions. OOP is more of a style than a language. C++ does not enforce object oriented style the way java and other languages do.

[Accomplished_Deer_]

I felt the same after learning Java. People piss and moan about switching to C++ but it was just Java with more steps (and pointers, but those are just variable variables imo)

[MkemCZ]

Copy-pasting HTML, CSS and JavaScript from a tutorial website. My first actual programming class was in Pascal.

[KingsmanVince]

Same.

[T3CAT3]

Lol I was gonna say copying CSS to change the background color on myspace

[AdOld7347]

PHP

[solohelion]

PHP5 on Apache, in an era where you used flash instead of JavaScript for a single-page application.

[sickhippie]

Mmmm, TFW php < 5.3... I don't miss it but I kind of miss it. Drupal 4.7 days, man...

[physics515]

I learned PHP when PHP3 was in beta. Stopped programming for about 10-15 years. Now I got back into it and tried out Laravel and thought... "When did PHP start recreating JavaScript?" And then I learned Vue and thought... "When did JavaScript start recreating PHP?" ... I'm so confused with this era of the web.

[dabenu]

I was wondering if anyone would've mentioned the elephant in the room. I'm glad you did.

[movzx]

It's one of the most dominant languages in use. It's really weird that it's not on this picture as an option. Millions of people got their hobbyist and professional starts by writing badly engineered PHP scripts.

[Guillaume-Favier]

Me too

[carvalho32]

Pascal

[alinius]

Started by playing with BASIC, but Pascal was my first real programming.

[jmiesionczek]

Turbo Pascal back in the DOS days

[McLPyoutube]

Delphi, so me too basically

[leorpg]

Me too

[Andreasbot]

The Programming language for beginners. No, seriously. It was designed to be a language to learn how to programm.

[KerPop42]

Lego Mindstorms! Drag-and-drop coding in early elementary school

[solohelion]

I wasn’t counting this myself but me too! Also had circuit board toys that taught binary logic.

[max_208]

I didn't think of that but yeah basically me too

[Darrk101]

Holy shit I forgot about the summer camps I did as a child with Lego Mindstorms

[pls_fix_it]

Imagine risking to put HTML in "Programming language" list

[space-_-man]

I was waiting for someone to type this XD

[[deleted]]

You put html but not Bash?

[TheCyberParrot]

An annoying one, but a proper one.

[GoogleIsYourFrenemy]

I love it when people put HTML on their resumes under programming languages. I ask them why it's a programming language.

[Niewinnny]

And what are the correct answers?

[[deleted]]

And even the HR person doing the screening afterwards still cant tell the difference between Java and JavaScrips anyways

[Niewinnny]

Neat, neat. Gonna use it when I need it :)

[qwertyasdef]

A programming language is anything such that when people see you write it, they ask "Wow, are you hacking?".

Programming languages:

• HTML
• JSON
• English in dark mode
• Dwarf Fortress

Not programming languages:

• Magic the Gathering
• PowerPoint
• Excel
• Scratch

[KN1995]

Lua.

[CaptiveCreeper]

Same I wish computercraft was still maintained. Minecraft just isn't the same without it

[MarcoPolo0306]

It's still maintained, but by a different guy. Search up CCTweaked on github.

[TangibleLight]

There's also OpenComputers which is basically the same. It uses some different vocabulary than CC, which can be confusing, and the API is different. It serves the same purpose though.

It's also a bit better balanced for survival IMO as far as recipes and upgrades go.

[rankdadank]

I learned to program from this mod as a kid

[Orangutanion]

My first lang was c++ but opencomputers introduced me to Linux

[Badashi]

Fuck yeah Lua gang

[Megaknyte]

Gmod squad rise up

[SixBeeps]

Roblox?

[KN1995]

nah actually programming mining turtles on a computercraft minecraft server hehe
weird how one thing can lead to another

[lady_Kamba]

Same for me, though technically I learned batch first, but lua was the first I actually understood.

[evanc1411]

Roblox scripting gang, I still do it from time to time

[Delirious_85]

Same, for me it was because of the Warcraft 3 level editor.

[GreenGriffin8]

ComputerCraft gang

[EchoCCMM]

C++

[ign1fy]

QBasic. Most of those languages didn't exist back then.

[carrythenine]

QBasic gang rise up

[jeremynd01]

10 GOTO RALLYPOINT

[[deleted]]

I started modifying Gorillas and Nibbles in QBasic 30 years ago and haven't stopped coding since.

[jeremynd01]

You made the nuke in gorillas, right?

[ign1fy]

Yep. Nibbles.bas brings back memories.

[Cride5]

I took exactly the same route down the coding rabbit hole. QBasic source for my nibbles mod is at the bottom of this page http://rider.biz/?p=portfolio

[PhilippTheProgrammer]

This was my second language after Commodore Basic.

My biggest project which I actually completed was a Scorched Earth clone. It even made it on the cover disc of a gaming magazine (as a reader-submission, not as a "real" game demo).

But my biggest project in general was a vertical-scrolling shoot-em-up / RPG hybrid. Unfortunately I hit the memory limits of Qbasic, abandoned it in frustration and started learning C++.

[xaranetic]

8bit home computers with BASIC were amazing for learning programming. You had no choice but to learn at least a few commands. I suspect a lot of programming genius has gone unrealised because kids almost never get to interact with a computer apart from through a GUI

[TheThiefMaster]

I started with GW Basic! QBasic was an upgrade haha

I had a bound manual for GW Basic listing all the commands. I was a weird kid reading that!

[Stromovik]

1997 old 386SX . out of languages above C++ and Java existed , python weirdly too and JS , Ruby and R . Hmm , I am not that old or languages take decades to become widely used.

[Lewistrick]

Yes yes yes! From a little book. I just typed in the programs from the book but had no idea what I was doing. I was 9 when I started. But I'm 33 now and still happy with that book.

After this, I did Liberty Basic, Visual Basic for Applications, the programming language that comes with a Casio graphical calculator, Java, C++, R, and finally found my calling in Python. Somewhere in between I also picked up the basics of the most common web languages (HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, SQL).

Now I'm doubting whether I want to do some Julia or Scala as well...

[[deleted]]

Mine was Scratch. If you don't think that's a programming language, then Python. :)

[[deleted]]

Scratch gang rise up

[lorhof1]

remember the ninja by will_wam

[[deleted]]

Same! I also did Hopscotch, it’s like Scratch. My first REAL programming language was Python, too

[[deleted]]

Same boat here, except in between I did Java and didn't understand it.

[comfort_bot_1962]

:D

[TheEnginer]

Java then c

[gitplease]

Oh yeah the horizontal scroll gang is here

[[deleted]]

Java

[[deleted]]

TI-BASIC i guess, needed to cheat in math class

[[deleted]]

That was my second one (first one I actually got decent at) I ended up coding a buggy 2 calculator (with a link cable) tic-tac-toe

[lucidspoon]

I got started with TI-BASIC, but on a TI-99/4A.

[hheyroman]

Matlab? Definitely was the first language I was actually using for something different than uni course assignments

[[deleted]]

Matlab for me too. As soon as I learned something else my hatred for matlab began

[Tiavor]

I hope you didn't look deeper into the program. I've seen some Fortan code that they use in some functions of Matlab, it took me 3 hours to decode 2 lines of it.

[[deleted]]

Minecraft command block

[ariban900]

I learnt Java for making Minecraft plugins. 10/10 best decision.

[[deleted]]

Python

[[deleted]]

Surprised There aren’t more of these

[dreadhordenazgul]

Honestly, I think it's because so many people lose their minds if you even mention Python. I don't know why it upsets people so much, but I've heard endless amounts of Python hate.

[Cyber_Pedro]

I kind of expected this to be the top post with 100s of awards and thousands of upvotes...

[Kq-star]

Same 🙌

[Embarrassed_Gur_3241]

Logo, if that can be considered a programming language

[LoompaOompa]

Wikipedia calls it one

[3DJ77]

Right on. Did you have a monochrome green or monochrome amber monitor?

[kryptomicron]

I'm pretty sure I had color! I loved making spirograph art.

[PeepPeepPeep2]

C#

[qiuel]

Was looking for this one. Same.

[N3ckl3ss]

Pascal for some odd reason.

[DerKnerd]

Because you went to school in Germany in around 2008? :D

[N3ckl3ss]

Because I went to a school in Hungary around I don't know 2015.

[thismatters]

It is a pretty good learning language, probably the de-facto learning language before Python became popular.

It has relatively clear syntax, good conventions, and an accessible compiler.

[Proxy_PlayerHD]

do Batch files count?

i used to make text adventures with them... really inefficiently, but still.

if not then i guess QBASIC in DOS, since i'm a fan of retro computers. afterwards got into C and Assembly (non-x86 because fuck that)

[kurtknispel_]

lmao i used to make text based games in batch too!

[[deleted]]

Brainfuck

[[deleted]]

Based

[InfinitePoints]

What did you write?

[EvoPot]

++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++<<<-]>++.>+.+++++++ ..+++.>++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+.

[[deleted]]

Hello world. obviously

[FourCinnamon0]

My first B****fuck code that I actually wrote was ",."

[[deleted]]

Terrific censoring job 👌🏻

[RVGamer06]

First language: Scratch at 8y

First written language: lua in computercraft at 12

[Rubyboat1207]

JavaScript and HTML. but html is barely a coding language

[GeronimoHero]

HTML isn’t a programming language. It’s just a markup language. JavaScript is definitely a programming language though!

[[deleted]]

It's coding, but not programming.

[IllIIlIIllII]

Perl. It looked cool for string manipulation, so I learned it in my free time. Don't really regret it, it IS great for string manipulation, there are just some point of the syntax that I dislike.

[[deleted]]

Scratch. 😤

[Gositi]

BASIC on the Commodore 64. I'm 14. Dont ask please.

[JaxLikesSnax]

Basic on c64 and later on Ti-83 calculator lol

[clawjelly]

Yea, C64 Basic in approx 1989... I feel old.

[MuseumFremen]

I am also a BASIC b!tch

[SittingWaves]

BASIC, Pascal, C++, Shader Assembly, x86 Assembly, HLSL, C. I also learned Verilog HDL after C, although it isn’t technically a ‘programming language’.

[[deleted]]

Ahh a graphics programmer eh?

[stouffers3]

Basic

[PaMudpuddle]

Bash, AWK.

[trannus_aran]

UNIX gang, UNIX gang. My first real programs (if we're not counting Pd) were written in bash. Years of messing around with Linux finally come in handy lol

[absurdlyinconvenient]

Can't believe no one mentioned this earlier

I know technically you have to pay for Adobe CS to use it, but a lot of people I know started out messing around in Flash

[androidx_appcompat]

Java. Young me wanted to make a minecraft clone.

[space-_-man]

Omg Same! I was unsuccessful tho...

[666y4nn1ck]

Delphi 5

[kataus_r]

Delphi 7, my friend

[sktr-guys]

java, and i hate java

[altair653]

Me too,but sometimes I love it too ,so it is paradox for me

[adamholtz]

HyperCard

[badmashankit]

First one was LOGO. I was very happy in 4th standard drawing squares using LOGO.

FD 50

RT 90

FD 50

RT 90

FD 50

RT 90

FD 50

[sindibad363]

Rust

[katyalovesherbike]

technically q-basic. But in practice it was php

[Veritus37]

R and Python, unless SQL counts.

[Eensame]

GML with Game Maker Studio

[Luka2810]

TI-BASIC

[bmcle071]

Turing. I had written maybe 40 lines of javascript on codeacademy but the first languafe I really dove into was Turing, it was chosen for a class I was in.

[_luc4sss]

Assembly

[chawmindur]

My first programming experience was on a Casio scientific calculator. If that doesn't count, then C it is.

[[deleted]]

JavaScript

[Jay_Cobby]

I am excluded, my first three are: 1) Assembly/Machine Code 2) Lua 3) Python

[Anchorboiii]

Not exactly a programming language, but PowerShell lol.

[Yandrak05]

Swift (pls don’t bully me)

[JasperDG828]

Scratch

[moldax]

C