Programming language

[shoshi]

What was the first you learned? Python? or something else such as SQL or html?

 

[toobfreak]

What was the first you learned? Python? or something else such as SQL or html?

How about KIM and Fortran? C?

 

[BULLDOG]

Fortran, and then Cobol.

 

[shoshi]

I recommend Python because it has so many applications and looks good on your resume. Gives you good base for learning other languages. SQL is from 1974 and you still need it today for data analysis. impressive.

 

[BlindBoo]

Fortran.

 

[Borillar]

I first learned BASIC. Then learned COBOL, FORTRAN, and PASCAL. Much later on I learned C and Perl.

 

[shoshi]

I first learned BASIC. Then learned COBOL, FORTRAN, and PASCAL. Much later on I learned C and Perl.

Do you know C* or C++?

 

[Damaged Eagle]

ASCII

*****SMILE*****

 

[alang1216]

What was the first you learned? Python? or something else such as SQL or html?

I played around with Basic (just "Basic") and command line, DOS and Unix scripts but didn't get serious until I started application programming in the unique languages they used. Eventually they matured and all use Python now. I also did a bunch of javascript, asp, aspx, and php to build some web sites. Good times. I can't recall how many OS I learned that don't exist anymore.

 

[shoshi]

What was the first you learned? Python? or something else such as SQL or html?

I played around with Basic (just "Basic") and command line, DOS and Unix scripts but didn't get serious until I started application programming in the unique languages they used. Eventually they matured and all use Python now. I also did a bunch of javascript, asp, aspx, and php to build some web sites. Good times. I can't recall how many OS I learned that don't exist anymore.

javascript is good to know. every interactive website uses it. Did you find it more difficult to learn than Python?

 

[alang1216]

What was the first you learned? Python? or something else such as SQL or html?

I played around with Basic (just "Basic") and command line, DOS and Unix scripts but didn't get serious until I started application programming in the unique languages they used. Eventually they matured and all use Python now. I also did a bunch of javascript, asp, aspx, and php to build some web sites. Good times. I can't recall how many OS I learned that don't exist anymore.

javascript is good to know. every interactive website uses it. Did you find it more difficult to learn than Python?

Hard to say, the Javascript I used was NOT the asynchronous stuff we have today. If I had to guess, I'd say Python is the easiest language (and the most useful) if only because it has the largest community behind it. It won't do everything great but it will do everything. A Swiss Army knife of a language.

 

[dblack]

I started with C. There are some advantages to that - you'll have a better handle on how memory management works and you'll learn to work with fewer "conveniences". But it's probably more fun to start with something that will give you quicker results - Javascript, Ruby, Python.

SQL and HTML are supporting languages with a very specific purposes designed in (querying for data and rendering webpages, respectively). You'll probably need them, depending on what kind of programming you want to do, but there's no point in starting there.

 

[dblack]

What was the first you learned? Python? or something else such as SQL or html?

I played around with Basic (just "Basic") and command line, DOS and Unix scripts but didn't get serious until I started application programming in the unique languages they used. Eventually they matured and all use Python now. I also did a bunch of javascript, asp, aspx, and php to build some web sites. Good times. I can't recall how many OS I learned that don't exist anymore.

javascript is good to know. every interactive website uses it. Did you find it more difficult to learn than Python?

Hard to say, the Javascript I used was NOT the asynchronous stuff we have today. If I had to guess, I'd say Python is the easiest language (and the most useful) if only because it has the largest community behind it. It won't do everything great but it will do everything. A Swiss Army knife of a language.

Modern Javascript has moved far beyond its original purpose (scripting for web pages). The async-first mindset can make for some confusing code to a newb. It's also makes it possible to write some really bad code, that never-the-less, kinda-sorta works. Something like Ruby or Python might be a better place to start.

The real key is to find something you want to make, and do it. Grab whatever tools get the job done. I think that's the best way to learn.

 

[Moonglow]

What was the first you learned? Python? or something else such as SQL or html?

COBOL using geometric figures...Then FORTRAN in the later 1980's and then of course everyone's C: prompt populator-DOS.....

 

[Moonglow]

What was the first you learned? Python? or something else such as SQL or html?

I played around with Basic (just "Basic") and command line, DOS and Unix scripts but didn't get serious until I started application programming in the unique languages they used. Eventually they matured and all use Python now. I also did a bunch of javascript, asp, aspx, and php to build some web sites. Good times. I can't recall how many OS I learned that don't exist anymore.

javascript is good to know. every interactive website uses it. Did you find it more difficult to learn than Python?

Hard to say, the Javascript I used was NOT the asynchronous stuff we have today. If I had to guess, I'd say Python is the easiest language (and the most useful) if only because it has the largest community behind it. It won't do everything great but it will do everything. A Swiss Army knife of a language.

Modern Javascript has moved far beyond its original purpose (scripting for web pages). The async-first mindset can make for some confusing code to a newb. It's also makes it possible to write some really bad code, that never-the-less, kinda-sorta works. Something like Ruby or Python might be a better place to start.

The real key is to find something you want to make, and do it. Grab whatever tools get the job done. I think that's the best way to learn.

I want a Bunny Ranch in Mizzouri like they have in Vegas....

 

[miketx]

Power Basic. Wrote my tranny shop software with it. 40,000 lines of code and sold several copies too.

 

[Moonglow]

Power Basic. Wrote my tranny shop software with it. 40,000 lines of code and sold several copies too.

I do hope you claimed it on yer taxes.

 

[miketx]

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Back in the dos days you could append ascii character 255 to the end of a file name and no one could run the file unless they typed the file name plus ascii character 255 because it was invisible.

 

[HenryBHough]

Basic, Pascal, Cobol, Covid.
Had to first learn Mandarin for the last one.

 

[alang1216]

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*****SMILE*****

Back in the dos days you could append ascii character 255 to the end of a file name and no one could run the file unless they typed the file name plus ascii character 255 because it was invisible.

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The only VBScript I ever wrote toggled the Caps Lock to keep my office screen saver from ever coming on. Bad security but made my life easier.