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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Sinclair BASIC on the ZX Spectrum... 1983
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.
Mine was GW-Basic and Q-Basic. around 1996. I still think those were better beginners programming language than
scratchor all these low-code no-code bulls**tIt's good to see that Q-Basic lives on in modern iterations such as QB64 PE with a C++ backend.
I can one-up you on that. I started with BASIC on the ZX81, precursor to the ZX Spectrum, which I also got later!
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! 😛
Okay, i am not familiar with language but i will try learn for sure ! Thank you for sharing your opinion! :)
Java!
great ! :)
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.
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). ✨
thank you !
Damn, is this a bite? Please say it is.
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). :)
hello! Thank you for welcoming me ! :)
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.
Thank you so much for sharing with us ! :)
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.
Javascript is in trend! thank you for sharing your opinion ! :)
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.
My first one was HTML. I then bought some robotics kits and learned Blockly (Scratch), then went on to CSS and JS. Now I even do Node.js, Perl, Bash, C++, Python, and more, but I like to call myself a full-stack web developer.
Visual BASIC but not many people have heard it before
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.
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.
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