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Priya Bapodra
Priya Bapodra

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Which is your First programming language ?

Hello Everyone!
It is my first Post here! I just want to know that, which should be first programming language for beginners?
If I am talking about me, I learned C and C++ during my undergraduate years, and they serve as a foundation for many other languages. What do you think?
What is your opinion on this? Please tell me your point of view!
Thanks and have a great day!

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Jon Randy 🎖️ • Edited

Sinclair BASIC on the ZX Spectrum... 1983

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mortylen

I didn't expect to see it here, I started with it too. I had a compatible version of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum called Didaktik. It was made in Europe in Slovakia.

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Abhinav Kulshreshtha

Mine was GW-Basic and Q-Basic. around 1996. I still think those were better beginners programming language than scratch or all these low-code no-code bulls**t

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chikega

It's good to see that Q-Basic lives on in modern iterations such as QB64 PE with a C++ backend.

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Monty Harper

I can one-up you on that. I started with BASIC on the ZX81, precursor to the ZX Spectrum, which I also got later!
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Jon Randy 🎖️

I guess in a way, I probably got the programming bug a few years earlier. Technically you could write programs on this, but it was hardly Turing complete! 😛

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Priya Bapodra

Okay, i am not familiar with language but i will try learn for sure ! Thank you for sharing your opinion! :)

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Ben Halpern

Java!

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Priya Bapodra

great ! :)

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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard

Ada is the first language I learnt in my engineering school.
Ada is an obscure but good language.
Ada is also an obscure, alas, but incredible woman.
Ada Lovelace is a programmer from the XIX° century

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation.

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Thomas Bnt

Hello, and welcooome on DEV! 🚀
My first programming language is CSS. I love the web dev, and even now I continue to develop with this language, and to push the code further, I do it with SCSS (SASS). ✨

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Priya Bapodra

thank you !

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Ivan Zakutnii

Damn, is this a bite? Please say it is.

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Ryan Brown

My first language was Integer Basic on the Apple ][e (pronounced "Apple two E" for the younglings.) It was great for cutting teeth and getting a handle on some basics (har har!)

Later, again in the Apple world... HyperCard/HyperScript the combination of a visual and scripted interactions in one package, easily deploy-able... was great.

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Diona Rodrigues

Welcome to the ball!! :)
I firstly learned ActionScript (by using Flash to create animations) and a little bit of ASP (which was the language that the company I worked for used to use at that time). :)

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Priya Bapodra

hello! Thank you for welcoming me ! :)

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Brian G.

Love this thread and seeing all the varied responses!

Mine was CSS and HTML. I learned it during the 90s while customizing Geocities websites. I learned a tiny amount of JavaScript but not enough to feel confident.

Next up was PHP. I inherited management of a WordPress site at one of my first jobs, and needed to figure out how to customize it. This was where I really learned how to program. Confession: I love PHP and use Laravel quite frequently now.

A couple years after learning PHP, I inherited a DNN site and had to learn C# and ASP.NET. My career took me through a lot of Windows organizations, so I came to love C#, and programming PowerShell scripts.

I've picked up a lot more in the last decade or so. Currently, I'm learning Go.

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Priya Bapodra

Thank you so much for sharing with us ! :)

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DR

JavaScript is goated as a language, but I'd probably go with Python as the best first language to learn.

I personally learned the first steps of programming from Scratch (which I now don't recommend), but JS took me to the next level and it's been my go-to ever since.

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Priya Bapodra

Javascript is in trend! thank you for sharing your opinion ! :)

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chikega

C is the Latin of many programming languages.

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Alex (The Engineering Bolt) ⚡

Visual BASIC but not many people have heard it before

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Alexander B.K.

While I was only able to code using FoxPro for DOS, other people at the office used VB and Delphi for developing GUI apps for Windows.

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Abhinav Kulshreshtha

If FoxPro was not bought by MS I would still be a foxpro programmer. A language and db in one bundle. Killing foxpro was the first reason I started disliking microsoft, even before I learned about open source philosophy.

I wrote my first complete application in foxpro and got a year worth of library membership as reward. Proudest moment in my childhood.

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Alex (The Engineering Bolt) ⚡

Actually I just remembered, it was just BASIC and it was literally copying a program from a book line by line. It was Space Invaders which I really enjoyed. More importantly it did work at the end.

Visual Basic did come at later point.

P.S.: I just learned that BASIC stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code