Hardison Posted May 31, 2012 Posted May 31, 2012 I know that I'm dating myself, but the first language I learned was Fortran. Does anyone remember that? I learned it in my first year of college. I remember sitting in class asking myself, why am I in this class? At that time, I was an engineering major. I eventually switched majors, but the main take away from that class was learning flowcharts and learning to think logically. Little did I know that I would work with computers later in life. Quote
CHiLL Posted May 31, 2012 Posted May 31, 2012 Programming languages haven't been a strong point for me, I do struggle with them. But I learnt some HTML/PHP (which aren't really programming languages as such) in school and college. In my current job, I've learnt some VBscript and Visual Basic, but that's about it. Quote
Shole Posted May 31, 2012 Posted May 31, 2012 I know that I'm dating myself, but the first language I learned was Fortran. Does anyone remember that? I learned it in my first year of college. I remember sitting in class asking myself, why am I in this class? At that time, I was an engineering major. I eventually switched majors, but the main take away from that class was learning flowcharts and learning to think logically. Little did I know that I would work with computers later in life. Wow I never heard of that langauge when were you in collage I tryed to learn C++ and pearl but failed misserably as i wasnt able to find enough free time . Quote
Hardison Posted May 31, 2012 Author Posted May 31, 2012 Wow I never heard of that langauge when were you in collage I tryed to learn C++ and pearl but failed misserably as i wasnt able to find enough free time . It was awhile ago! From your reply, probably before you were born. Fortran Quote
LosAngelesLover Posted May 31, 2012 Posted May 31, 2012 I started learning C++ when I was 9 (Don't get me started.) and I'm pretty good at it, as well as some other languages. But C++ will always be my first language. Quote
antwanmon Posted June 2, 2012 Posted June 2, 2012 The only programming I have ever gotten into is Python, simply because it is easy to learn and not to complicated. However, I have done a bit of HTML CSS and PHP for web development purposes. I learned to do some web dev while in high school because I was bored and had nothing better to do. I probably should have learned some more hard core stuff like C++, but it just takes forever to learn. Quote
__Darknite Posted June 2, 2012 Posted June 2, 2012 I know that I'm dating myself, but the first language I learned was Fortran. Does anyone remember that? I learned it in my first year of college. I remember sitting in class asking myself, why am I in this class? At that time, I was an engineering major. I eventually switched majors, but the main take away from that class was learning flowcharts and learning to think logically. Little did I know that I would work with computers later in life. Yes my first language too! And I also did my BEng in Engineering. Fortran is still big in engineering. Its actually faster than C++. Take a look at some of the maths libraries.. Hardison 1 Quote
Victor Leigh Posted June 3, 2012 Posted June 3, 2012 I never had the chance to learn programming from the basics. More or less, I jumped into the deep end with relational database programming. My first tool was dBase. Then when Foxbase came out, I migrated to Foxbase. I stayed with Foxbase all the way to Foxpro. It has been many years since I last wrote any code. Now I am thinking of learning Lua. Quote
JHTech100 Posted June 3, 2012 Posted June 3, 2012 I think mine was Perl a few years ago. After that, I moved onto VB, then web dev (HTML/CSS/JS/PHP). Quote
Marc Posted June 3, 2012 Posted June 3, 2012 I started with sql along with VBA in order to help with stats in the accounts department I worked in. Soon realised I didnt want to be an accountant after all. Funny how life turns out aint it LOL Quote
ridwan sameer Posted June 4, 2012 Posted June 4, 2012 Oh, I forgot to mention Currently trying to Learn JAVA from thenewboston Quote
JHTech100 Posted June 4, 2012 Posted June 4, 2012 Oh, I forgot to mention Currently trying to Learn JAVA from thenewboston I am learning Java, too. I really like thenewboston tutorials. Simple and effective. Quote
JimBobIV Posted June 4, 2012 Posted June 4, 2012 I took a basic C++ course in a summer youth program at Michigan Tech after my freshman year in high school, but the instruction wasn't great and not a lot of it stuck with me. The first language I learned seriously was Java, although I did some work in teaching myself some basic HTML. Quote
Microsuck Posted June 4, 2012 Posted June 4, 2012 Programming languages haven't been a strong point for me, I do struggle with them. But I learnt some HTML/PHP (which aren't really programming languages as such) in school and college. In my current job, I've learnt some VBscript and Visual Basic, but that's about it. PHP is just as much a programming language as VB or Java or C. The medium of which it is interpreted does not change its classification. Marc 1 Quote
Microsuck Posted June 4, 2012 Posted June 4, 2012 Oh, I forgot to mentionCurrently trying to Learn JAVA from thenewboston Don't. I originally thought videos were better books, but I totally recommend books. Quote
JimBobIV Posted June 4, 2012 Posted June 4, 2012 It's certainly much easier (IMO) to look through books or stored documents than it is to seek through a video, and when learning a programming language you're going to want to search and verify a lot on your own, which could be tedious with a video, but if it's working for him he could just get reference books/documents as a supplement. Personally, I've never looked at that site so I don't know how or how much they teach you to make a firmer judgement on the matter. Quote
Marc Posted June 4, 2012 Posted June 4, 2012 I think it depends on your learning style tbh. I find it easier to take things in from videos, however could not do it with videos alone. A book is certainly needed for reference whilst learning even if you are using videos. Quote
Hardison Posted June 4, 2012 Author Posted June 4, 2012 Yes my first language too! And I also did my BEng in Engineering. Fortran is still big in engineering. Its actually faster than C++. Take a look at some of the maths libraries.. I will for nostalgia's sake. I'm surprised that it's still in use. I did think it was replaced by c++. Quote
S.O. Price Posted June 5, 2012 Posted June 5, 2012 I know that I'm dating myself, but the first language I learned was Fortran. Does anyone remember that? I learned it in my first year of college. I remember sitting in class asking myself, why am I in this class? At that time, I was an engineering major. I eventually switched majors, but the main take away from that class was learning flowcharts and learning to think logically. Little did I know that I would work with computers later in life. Ok, I'm going to date myself too a bit (actually a lot). WAY back in high school, I first learned BASIC (beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code), RPG II (report program generator) and COBOL (common business oriented language). And yes, in college I had a FORTRAN class also. I remember when I first graduated from college, mainframe were still "the big thing" and PC's were kind of laughable. I got a job working with DOS PC's and little did I know that was such a blessing in disguise. So glad I didn't waste my energies with mainframes.... Hardison 1 Quote
Hardison Posted June 5, 2012 Author Posted June 5, 2012 Ok, I'm going to date myself too a bit (actually a lot). WAY back in high school, I first learned BASIC (beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code), RPG II (report program generator) and COBOL (common business oriented language). And yes, in college I had a FORTRAN class also. I remember when I first graduated from college, mainframe were still "the big thing" and PC's were kind of laughable. I got a job working with DOS PC's and little did I know that was such a blessing in disguise. So glad I didn't waste my energies with mainframes.... It's been awhile since I've heard anyone mention COBOL and BASIC. I also remember when people thought PC were laughable. My Fortran professor told me, "It's ridiculous to think that people would want a computer in their home." Crazy! Quote
__Darknite Posted June 5, 2012 Posted June 5, 2012 It's been awhile since I've heard anyone mention COBOL and BASIC. I also remember when people thought PC were laughable. My Fortran professor told me, "It's ridiculous to think that people would want a computer in their home." Crazy! Every year or so developers talk about "COBOL is dead". It always makes me chuckle, its being "dying" for 40+ years I don't think programming languages really ever die, they fade but not die. As long as some legacy system still runs that code, it needs someone to maintain it. Rayru18 and Hardison 2 Quote
merlyn73 Posted June 5, 2012 Posted June 5, 2012 Heh...the one guy who thought Fortran was going to give away his age isn't going to feel very bad. Anyone here remember BASIC? 10 PRINT "Dang I'm old.." 10 GOTO 10 Quote
Marc Posted June 5, 2012 Posted June 5, 2012 Heh...the one guy who thought Fortran was going to give away his age isn't going to feel very bad. Anyone here remember BASIC? 10 PRINT "Dang I'm old.." 10 GOTO 10 10 PRINT "What is your name?" 20 INPUT $a 30 IF $a="marc" GOTO 50 40 GOTO 60 50 PRINT "Hi Boss!" END 60 PRINT "Hello " & a$ END No .... I dont remember it at all, Im not old enough ..... Honest, Im not! merlyn73 and Hardison 2 Quote
MattC Posted June 5, 2012 Posted June 5, 2012 My first experience of programming was using something called Logo (or Turtle) on a very old RM Nimbus. Although my memory from that far back isn't great I remember I used to spend ages hacking away just to get the turtle to draw some crazy graphics on screen. Even to this day I can't remember what the point of it was. First proper programming was in QuickBASIC where I wrote the most inefficient text adventure game ever. This was long before I discovered the use of Subs and had my entire program all coded in one with countless GOTO statements. Ahh, those were the days Marc 1 Quote
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