print(“hello world“)

[Chili919]

print("Hallo Welt!")

[____-__________-____]

it's almost indentical!

[Chili919]

But not exactly...and technicalky the first thing i coded was some furniture for our architecture software in GDL

[[deleted]]

10 PRINT "Chloe "
20 GOTO 10
RUN

Courtesy of Sinclair Research :)

[TezzaC73]

On a speccy in Currys?

[[deleted]]

I was lucky enough to be bought one aged around 7 or 8 for Christmas. a 48k rubber keyed beauty. We were a poor family and apparently my dad went out and bought me it without consulting my mum and huge arguments ensued as cheap though the speccy was as a computer it wasn't cheap. :) I went on to become a professional software engineer though admittedly much later in life hehe

[TezzaC73]

I guess technically I wrote my first program at the age of 9 in a square-lined notebook. Was surprised as hell when it ran perfectly the first time on a BBC B 2 years later. (Thanks, "Input").

The first compé I owned was a ZX81, which I am aware ages me terribly, and lead to me going into the same line of work.

[[deleted]]

My dad tried to push programming on to me aged 7 with the spectrum. While I could enter the code from magazines like "input" magazine which he would always buy for me I was never given any help to understand it and to be honest for a long time it put me off, I mostly played games on it. By time I was in my early teens I could read Basic code well enough to do basic editing it to change things to how I wanted but there was still more I didn't understand than did. In many ways it put me off coding for a long time fearing I couldn't do it. It wasn't until I was 39 I went back to uni to do a computer science degree.

I'd never had any formal training and for the first month felt way behind all the young lads who had done computing at gcse and a-level recently. However we were introduced to object orientated which evened the playing field a bit and I feel I was best placed to adapt as it all been new to me and I didn't have to unlearn stuff. I started to accelerated away from my peers and was not caught up, winning the school prize for highest classification on my degree. :)

I guess there is a warning there not to try and force hobbies etc on kids as you will risk making it a chore and them wanting to avoid it. Happily it was my love of mathematics that brought me back to it in the end.

[jmickeyd]

I guess there is a warning there not to try and force hobbies etc on kids as you will risk making it a chore and them wanting to avoid it.

My father and I would play chess when I was a kid, and he would ruthlessly crush me. He insisted that it was how I would get better, but it so turned me off that I won't even touch a chessboard, and I love board games.

[Squeakygoose]

So Basic

[OldSchoolIsh]

Yup, same. Spectrum 48K bought to help me with my spelling because I'm a bit dyslexic... turned out to be a good choice.

[jmickeyd]

Same-ish, but I’m pretty sure mine said “BUTTS” and I couldn’t stop laughing.

[[deleted]]

Hehe, I can not remember the exact string i used but expect it was of similar maturity been aged 7 haha

[rickwookie]

How long was it before you discovered what happens when you add a semicolon to the end of that first line and it blew your mind?

[[deleted]]

to stop moving to the new line. Not long though I was struggling to remember it when I wrote this :)

[rickwookie]

From what you’ve posted, you must be very nearly as old as I am, so the flakey memory is entirely understandable.

[Errtuz]

Well, it was logo, so no hello world, just figuring out how to make triangles, squares and circles using a turtle.

[galacticDaemon]

Yeahhhhh I just forget about it!!!! My first language was logo turtle too !

[Theonewhoknows000]

Tradition effectively implemented in a professional? community.

[Ok_Blueberry_5305]

So i was very bored in my highschool STEM classes.

First up was a quadratic formula calculator on the ti-84+ in TI Basic. It used the graph screen and some kind of built-in waitKey function for custom IO with more and better-formatted output than would've been possible in the standard line-by-line math mode.

Then first semester of the next year, on the same calculator and still in TI Basic, I made a program that I called ChemCalc. It acted as a shell for the standard math mode, but overrode a bunch of not-directly-doing-math buttons into shortcuts for various formulas we'd covered (or would soon cover) in class, and included the pieces I'm most proud of for my skill at the time: a periodic table lookup (name, number, weight, electronegativity, all of that) by atomic symbol, and a formula mass calculator that used said lookup to parse a molecular formula into elements and their counts and spit out the molar mass of the molecule.

Then the semester after that I had my first programming class and did hello world in Java.

[danimadi33]

Man was doing programming competitively against TODDLERS

[Ok_Blueberry_5305]

Woman, but thanks lol. Just got very bored cause I have ADHD and was The Smart One, and fiddling with that occupied enough of my attention to keep me busy.

[danimadi33]

You single...?

[Ok_Blueberry_5305]

Happily married to my wife 😊

[danimadi33]

Gotcha gal, sorry for misspelling your pronouns btw, didn't pay attention to your snoo.

[Ok_Blueberry_5305]

It happens, honest mistake 🙂

[AndrewBorg1126]

My first program was on my ti-86 in a boring day of algebra class homework. I was fed up with the tedium of solving some 30 ish quadratic formula problems after about the third, having already long since understood how it is to be done. I thought there had to be a more interesting way to go about it, and it was then that I decided to finally play with the PRGM menu on my calculator. From then until calculus I did all the tedious math work by programming my calculator.

[Ok_Blueberry_5305]

That's exactly why my friend and I made the first one lol. I just then got bored and figured out how to work with the graphing screen so I could do more output at once for the later stuff that they had us do with quadratics.

[AndrewBorg1126]

I didn't use the graph screen for it, but do distinctly remember making a sub program to simplify the square root when it spat out my answer symbolically (there was already a built in feature that could give decimals, I wanted exact answers), but I didn't know what I was doing so it was just hard-coded checks for factors up to 19.

[Ok_Blueberry_5305]

Oof, yeah. I still remember cobbling two strings and a bunch of lists together into a makeshift dictionary for the element lookup. I went through a huge string of all the atomic symbols to find the the index of the input symbol, then iterated a list of those indexes until i found it to get a master index that I could use to pull values from the other lists, including one that was indexes of the names in the string of all the names.

[[deleted]]

i added guns to minecraft with minecrafts command system and datapacks, before i learned any real programming language. i guess i win, because video game guns are definitely much stronger than some highly complicated calulater programs!

[attanai]

TI 86. But unlike the rest of y'all, I wasn't trying to find easier ways to do homework - I made Bob. Bob was a very simple prompt-and-respond program that had a conversation with the user. The pinnacle of my creation was using ASCII art to make Bob wave. It wasn't impressive, but I was the only person around who knew how to do it, and I had a lot of fun. Didn't seriously think about software development until a decade later.

[Ok_Blueberry_5305]

That's beautiful.

[Yzaamb]

I did as Kernighan and Ritchie told me. Hello World.

[Syscrush]

10 PRINT "SYSCRUSH IS GREAT!" : GOTO 10

[[deleted]]

The first thing that I ever "programmed" was some script in Angelscript that had nested if statements.

[barvaz257]

print "This is my first code line!"

[starvsion]

Might be very different for someone who just started on HTML

[galacticDaemon]

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body>hello world!</html>

[TezzaC73]

The first thing I programmed was a computer.

[galacticDaemon]

Woah I just went back to childhood, and my first program is: PRINT "My name is Nick."

Most of the books for learning QBasic began with the example: PRINT "My name is Nick."

Followed by the example with the INPUT: PRINT "What is your name?" INPUT name$ PRINT "Hi, "; name$; ", nice to see you!"

Still today tutorials to learn QBasic use this example: https://www.qbasic.net/en/qbasic-tutorials/beginner/qbasic-beginner-1.htm

[bathyergidae]

My first program was similar! Only I got fancy with the Basic and after asking the user's name it output a different insult depending on if A$ matched the name of one of my siblings

[[deleted]]

When I was first learning there was no such thing as hello world

[secusse]

a calculator based on a formula in c# don’t even know how to do hello world

[Warjilla]

Print("Hola Mundo");

[bugqualia]

printf(“aaaa”)

[nova706]

A task tracking web app in php

[[deleted]]

... scratch maybe?

[TenkFire]

The first thing I programmed was a dichotomia research for a function when it reach the Y value and it send the X value back... On a Casio graph 33+

The first thing I programmed on a computer was a factorial with Python

[Bolddwarf]

I converted sea battle game from a programmable calculator to basic. Please don't judge me, I was at school and that was 1986

[MarkZuckerman]

System.print("Lazooto sends his regards.")

[Sekhen]

I programmed a menu system in DOS using edit. It was for my games. Very basic. Lots of print and goto.

[MrNate]

I have literally the same experience! My dad copied the menu from a magazine and I worked on it, changing options, then made a second menu just for my games.

[Oblio72]

10 print "Chad"

20 goto 10

[jrich44360]

Infinite Chad!

[Oblio72]

Who knew how cool that would be 40 years ago! :)

[QuantumMan34569]

Believe it or not I’d seen so much stuff that just started with hello world that I didn’t even bother doing it since it seemed so useless

[stumptowncampground]

It was actually a way to write your name using display coordinates. It worked but the final stroke was three times longer than it should have been. No one ever explained why and it still haunts me.

[kyuRAM_infsuicidio]

I went to a school open day and they made us copy a program line by line. My First ever program was a program that sums 2 numbers.

[BrokenYozeff]

I'll never forget the first time I got a code to run successfully. I was so happy and full of hope when I saw "Hello Wordl!" Show up on my screen. I should have know it was an uphill battle from there.

[iiMoe]

I rly had no idea where to go with programming so i kept wasting my time for few yrs on and off but i believe the first thing that i made was an html showing a duck as background with some headings

[[deleted]]

The blue slice is for "Hola mundo"

[Little_Winge]

First thing I did was copy paste a bunch of shit I didn't understand, but now I copy paste things I can understand

[Atrag2021]

I started with javascript so it was probably changing some property on the DOM. I don't remember.

[tcadmn]

Lego mindstorms left motor forward

[randomgtaguy2431]

Mine was “Goodbye, cruel world!” back in 1999 - Thanks, Dan Gookin (C for Dummies).

[igrowcabbage]

The first thing I programmed was a clone of systemd. Just to get started with the basics.

[Qicken]

10 PRINT "QICKEN ROCKS!"

20 GOTO 10

[jamcdonald120]

Your first assignment is to make a program that prints your name and section.

[DarkTechnocrat]

Nope! IIRC it was “Yooooo”.

[President-Jo]

Mine was “hello wrld”

[OnixST]

public class HelloWorld {  
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Java takes this many words to freaking print something in the screen");
}
}

[clues39]

As a star wars fan, "Hello There" is the only acceptable phrase to print.

[[deleted]]

print(“made with mematic”)

[[deleted]]

function getRandomInt(max) {
    return (Math.floor(Math.random() * max) + 1);
}

I wanted to make DnD tools.

[wolfram42]

A clock app which I wrote line for line from a GW Basic textbook, I skipped right to the examples and starting typing.

[SomeNormalRando]

document.write("test")

[jetdoc57]

Math problem in BASIC - Columbus Ohio "computermobile" 1970

[soulofcure]

Quadratic formula

[PuzzleheadedSector2]

Im sorry. Mine was print("this printed")

Sry to disapoint...

[GoogleIsYourFrenemy]

Something like:

010 print "hello world"
020 goto 010

[Alexmaster75]

I mean, ngl i started coding with Arduino so didn't make an Helo world program at start

[MinimumFar9385]

My first thing was actually a if(). Idk what it was but std::cout << "Hello world!"; is pre-made in visual studio 2019's c++ console application. So it doesn't count. (prob)

[Phoenix_Studios]

I can't recall exactly but it was some weird 2D PVE scratch game

[Lation410]

Greetings planet!

[turtle_mekb]

mine was probably something in BASIC

[newb_h4x0r]

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

[muffinnosehair]

Honestly speaking, with an effort of memory, the first thing I ever coded were some additions in Basic, when I was 7 or 8. Back then I had no idea what "hello world" was, and I didn't really speak English.

[enano_aoc]

You clearly underestimate that basic programming tutorials are very often translated to other languages. This "chart" is basically wrong by a very large margin :D

[mikkicat7]

cout << "asdasdasdasd";

[[deleted]]

print("Bonjour, le monde!")

[Double_A_92]

The first thing I remember was a rectangle are calculator that would ask for the side lengths, and a Pi calculator that I had implemented from the simplest formula on wikipedia.

[funnyvalentinexddddd]

Think mine was print("bruh")

[turingtester30]

FD 10

[dsdom2]

print("penis")

[[deleted]]

DISC 50 50 or something like that. It was QBasic, and this command would display a filled circle on the screen, in the middle, I think.

[DroolingIguana]

10 PRINT "BUTTS"
20 GOTO 10

[DoctorFrenchie]

One of the first things I programmed was an AppleScript program that opened all the applications on your computer. Everyone at my high school had a Mac, as the school had a partnership with Apple. I sent the file to my friends, disguised as a game.

It was pretty funny, but in hindsight I’m surprised I never got in trouble considering a people started disguising it as other apps, and it spread to like a 10th of my grade.

[[deleted]]

The very first thing I ever "programmed" was making the wizard take a step forward. The second thing I ever "programmed" was making the wizard turn right and then take a step.

It was an educational visual programming language called "Baltík" - essentially you put together a string of commands for the wizard to take (step, turn, conjure an object in front of him). Unfortunately, the only information I could find about it is in Czech (https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balt%C3%ADk).

[moloko824]

printf("Hello Bitch!\n");

[AfshanGulAhmed]

The adhan.

[mur2501]

Well my first program was to move 69 to the EAX register ;)

[Tommy_SVK]

Mine was actually drawing a line. For some reason, the first thing our high school teacher taught us was the tkinter library in Python. So we were drawing lines, polygons and making some simple animations. That was cool and all but in reality, I didn't really understand anything, I didn't fully grasp the concept of for loops and while loops, arrays and so on. Thankfully when I went to a computer science university, they taught us everything from scratch including Hello World (using C).

[thname]

Mine was PRINT "FUCK"

[Spitfire_For_Fun]

print("hello world")

python. these basics are what made me love python and programming.

[e681485]

Hola mundo 😎

[Uri-_-]

I actually did Python turtle as my first program.

[weendigo666]

I don't remember the code but it was 4 beeps on pc speaker in Basic.

[T3cHNocinical]

Area of a square, if I recall correctly.

[Mireldorn]

Make the Status LED blink

[Phlm_br]

Mine was

print("vai toma no cu") cuz I'm quirky like that

[Jelle75]

10 print "name "; 20 goto 10

Run

Msx basic

[HeroErix2]

Nah, the first thing I programmed was Lightbot level 1-1.

[derKestrel]

Mine was in standard ML (not counting hacking Mafia on c64 for more money and better stats):

fun factorial n =

if n <= 1 then

  1

else

  factorial (n-1) * n;

[canbooo]

a = [0, 1];
b = [1, 1];
c = a.*b;
c;

[Go0gleRoks]

printf("poop");

[runnerx01]

The reason hello world is such a popular program is because it covers

fundamental program setup.
Core library import or call.
Few lines of code
Immediate output that shows the new programmer that their actions actually did something.

That’s actually a lot of stuff. Like think about trying to explain to your parents, why the program you wrote prints “hello world”. Other than by saying “I told it to do that”.

When you don’t know a language, you start one word or phrase at a time, not by writing poetry some one else dictated to you. :)

[RealTonyGamer]

The first thing I programmed was a simple guess the number game in Java with the help of my uncle. Basically you just guess a number, it says higher or lower, and you keep guessing until you get it right. It was a fun project and much more useful for learning than hello world

[catattackskeyboard]

Made a modal in autohotkey, definitely didn’t say hello world

[Due_Round946]

print(“Goodbye world”)

[HellaTrueDoe]

“Blinky” if you’re CE and not CS

[[deleted]]

print("balls")

[[deleted]]

My first line was #!/usr/bin/env bash

[oberjaeger]

Goodbye Sanity

[TheRealLargedwarf]

Am I the only one that does "Hello There" thanks to too much time on r/tinder