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macOS What was you first programming language?
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I thought C64 BASIC was my first language, but then I remember actually I playing with the turtle graphics of Logo before BASIC.
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Doh! I forgot about the likes of Java and C# for the poll. I'm too old.
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Doh! I forgot about the likes of Java and C# for the poll. I'm too old.
I don't count LOGO because I didn't learn how to really program the turtle. I really started learning to program in AP Computer Science in my senior year of high school. The curriculum used C++. That's what I used when I started college then moved to Java. While in school I picked up perl, C, Haskell, some Lisp, some of a few ASMs, and probably some others. Afterwards at my first job I learned more C, a lot more perl, shell, Fortran, JavaScript, and maybe others. Now I'm mostly working in Java. Along the way I've seen some python and ruby, learned Objective-C, and may have dabbled in or researched a number of others I'm forgetting. Figuring out a new language is pretty enjoyable if you have some decent code to read.
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I think it was in LOGO that I developed my skills in problem analysis and techniques like divide'n'conquer.
I learnt LOGO in primary school. The teacher would give us worksheets with pictures on them, eg a house. We had to write a sequence of LOGO commands that would produce that picture.
It seems I owe my primary school computer teacher a lot.
I selected BASIC (HP2000), but before that I learned the fundamentals of programming a decimal-based machine language using a book that was constructed like some sort of website: you read a page, then a question at the bottom had 3 answers with links to click page numbers to turn to. It was a really effective teaching tool, I find it surprising the format never caught on with anyone else.
When I started programming, we didn't even have programming languages. We had to train small animals like hedgehogs and muskrats to perform the operations. Some things were obvious: rabbits or mice (multipliers), certain species of snakes (adders), and the occasional repurposed flotsam (oar gates). But let me tell you, it takes a lot of training to consistently complement a hedgehog.
Then we'd line everything up along the road and run them through their paces in a kind of "relay race". It was much later that electromechanical relays were invented, but by then the term "relay computer" was already long established.
Then we'd line everything up along the road and run them through their paces in a kind of "relay race". It was much later that electromechanical relays were invented, but by then the term "relay computer" was already long established.
Object oriented Touring back in grade nine CS, then Sceme in first year Uni, then most courses taught in Python.