Hello,
I was just wondering what is the first programming language you learned? I'm still trying to master PHP so almost there then I'm looking to learn JAVA/PERL as the seem to be some what interesting .
Thank you

I did a bit of BASIC long ago... just simple stuff like adding numbers, etc. so it doesnt really count.
I started getting into computer science courses in highschool : started off with pascal and learnt if statements/loops and "procedures" as they're called in pascal.
Then the next year our school changed curriculum to C++. Learned a little c++ like loops, functions, structures, classes.
Freshman year of college we had to do C in the intro to Comp Sci class. Learnt about queues, hashing, pointers
Then I took an OOP class and did the same C++ stuff again - didnt really learn anything new except for a little exception handling.
I am currently taking a beginning Java course and a course involving VBScript/Javascript. Also taking 2 CS courses - one involving OS programming concepts for unix such as fork, semaphores, etc... and the other involving web services using C#, SOAP. I'm like totally lost in that web services class ... hope to come out knowing more than I started with though!


If you learn PHP you will be able to move on to other languages and find it very easy to learn them. I know very little php.

First was C++... Then HTML, PHP... Now i'm learning SQL

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how come your URL is blocked out ?
anyway, first was HTML, then comes CGI, then ASP, then ASP.NET, now PHP ... i wonder what's next ?

there are too many computer languages ...i wish i knew all
Visual Basic, C, C++, Java, ASP, ASP.NET, CGI, PHP, etc.

Visual Basic was my first programming language that i learned but i haven't touched it for more than 4 years ..i totally suck at programming ....only if I were smarter

Programming's mostly about practice...you do it long enough and you won't have a difficult time.

I've done C, C++, little C#, asp, php, sql, VB, vbscript, javascript.

There's lots to learn and many applications of each. Be prepared though...

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As for the nature of this question - I never really got to learning any programming language. I'm using a WYSIWYG HTML editor and that's good enough for me. I usually outsource complex tasks.

Artashes: if you have a problem with the WYSIWYG and need help fixing HTML code, feel free to give me a holler

Thank you Haider, but its not the HTML that I have problems with. Its if I plan to do something in PHP or install a script, blah blah... stuff like that.

I first learnt BBC Basic, the 6502 Assembler. Then 68000 Assembler and Pascal, then C, then eventually VB, C++, VBScript, Javascript, and VB.net plus a bit of Perl.

Let's see, first QBasic, then borland c++, then I tried visual c++, but my brain fried.
Then HTML, ASP, VBSCRIPT, some JAVA, some Javascript, T-SQL, VB.NET, and now I am taking up C#.
Oh, and don't forget dos programming (batch files?) . I'm not sure if that's considered a seperate language.

digitaltheory

Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code aka BASIC was my first language.

I leaned Basic years ago. Then Java, C++, C, self-taught PHP, various other things. I'm still in university so I shall be learning more come September. Can't wait!

My first language was IBM 1401 SPS in 1964.
Then IBM 1620 machine code.
Then IBM 1620 SPS.
Then Honeywell 2040 programing language.
Then IBM 360 assembler.
Then FORTRAN II.
Then COBOL in 1966.
Then PL/1.
Then ALGOL.
Then Datapoint Datashare.
Then TI 990.
Then GW-BASIC.
and it continues with the more current stuff.