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.
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 ! :)
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 ! :)
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.
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 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.
C is the Latin of many programming languages.