View Poll Results: What language did you write your first program in?
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Assembler
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Basic
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C/C++
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Pascal
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Java
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Other
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Thread: Your first program language
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10-26-2006, 08:22 AM #1Newbie
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Your first program language
What language did you write your first program in?
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10-26-2006, 08:23 AM #2Disabled
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I did it with basic
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10-26-2006, 08:48 AM #3Aspiring Evangelist
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BBC Basic. Revision 3 IIRC. Them were the days....
Compared to a lot of the 8-bit systems implementation's of BASIC, Acorn's (the makers of the Beeb) was surprisingly useable. You could use proper variable names (I can't remeber if it was the comador or spectrum BASICs (or both) that had a limit of two characters for names), decent procedure/function call & return semantics (so you very rarely needed to resort to GOTO/GOSUB), and a powerful little multi-pass assembler built in for good measure for those of us who liked to dabble in the black arts.
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10-26-2006, 09:00 AM #4Web Hosting Guru
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If this thread is for curiosity, I would add the computer you began in too...
My case is Basic in a Commodore-64. Later, GWBasic from Microsoft in a PC XT
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10-26-2006, 10:54 AM #5Web Hosting Master
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C funnily enough - needed to use it to fulfill some tasks, so learnt as i went along..
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10-26-2006, 11:01 AM #6Newbie
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My first programming language was Pascal, after that was Assembler, and only then C and others...
There was a time, when I wanted to create my own operating system, so learned asembler.
Several years after, I had a working OS with GUI with VESA mode in 1024x768px resolution, mouse, multitasking etc... Won a contest in KTU university (Lithuania) with this OS when I was 12 grade schoolar.
And now...now PHP is my beloved scripting language
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10-26-2006, 11:13 AM #7Web Hosting Master
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I used some of the first apples - back when they were all one piece - keyboard and monitor and drive. HA! Black screen - green letters that would cast a serious green glow in a dark room. Programmed on them when I was in Jr. High.
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10-26-2006, 11:50 AM #8Web Hosting Guru
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basic on the atari 800
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10-26-2006, 11:59 AM #9Web Hosting Master
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nnormal - aging yourself a bit there as well aren't you?
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10-26-2006, 12:25 PM #10Junior Guru
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oh my, long time since i've first programed :p
i'd say qbasic 2 on the old 386 pc of my mother ...
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10-26-2006, 12:36 PM #11Web Hosting Master
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nnormal beats me by a couple years.
Microsoft MBASIC and Digital Research CBASIC running on the CP/M OS.
Good ole 4.0MHz 8bit fun.
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10-26-2006, 01:05 PM #12
Basic all the way, with one of these bad boys (Timex Sinclair 1000).
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10-26-2006, 01:09 PM #13Web Hosting Evangelist
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Java here.
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10-26-2006, 01:58 PM #14Web Hosting Master
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My first language was Basic too.
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10-26-2006, 02:09 PM #15Hail Eris !
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Basic on ZX Spectrum 48K
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10-26-2006, 03:11 PM #16Newbie
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They made us use Hypercard @ school for the intro programming class T_T.
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10-26-2006, 03:28 PM #17Junior Guru
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I'd be curious to really know who selected assembler as the 1st programing language he learnt
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10-26-2006, 03:34 PM #18Living the dream
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My first language was mirc's scripting
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10-26-2006, 03:38 PM #19Aspiring Evangelist
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Basic - I think it was the Atari 2100.
I spent a summer making a game but stopped when I couldn't reliably do collision detection. There were no hard rives back then so you had to switch 5 1/4 floppies after the intro.
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10-26-2006, 03:51 PM #20Aspiring Evangelist
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After looking at oldcomputers.net I remember using the Atari 800 (http://oldcomputers.net/atari800.html). I think that one had - get ready- a cassette drive! I remember playing Frogger in the equivalent of an audio cassette.
But I know I had a later Atari model and I think that is the one I programmed in.
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I just scrolled down on the link above and saw the one I had, an Atari 800XL.Affordable Business Web Site Hosting by Geo Redundant Hosting
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10-26-2006, 03:53 PM #21WHT Addict
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hey, I started with assembler, for intel 8088 (IBM PC XT)
I was 15 yrs old that time, and I wrote my first virus using just DOS debug program, it was a simple com virus, that append it's code to .com program and added jump in the first 3 bytes of the file.
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10-27-2006, 05:35 PM #22Newbie
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If you consider PHP scripts programs then I guess it's php. Otherwise it would be C++. Anyone who votes for assembly is hardcore
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10-27-2006, 07:18 PM #23Newbie
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Visual Basic 6 - had to use it in a college project.
it's gotta be the easyest (how the hell do you spell easiest? << i think thats right) programming language arround.
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10-27-2006, 07:33 PM #24Newbie
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Basic on a C64. It was mostly about typing my name thousands of times Few peeks and pokes.
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10-29-2006, 12:20 AM #25Web Hosting Master
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Basic on the Commodore 64. Those were the days. I still have some floppies and cassette tapes with my original programs on them. They're useless now, but I can't just throw out months of work.
One of my first programs was an alarm clock. I left my computer on all night just to wake up in the morning to my own alarm clock.Mike
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