What language DID you learn?

[btiffin]

Hi,

Instead of the ubiquitous "What language should I learn", I'd like to ask "What language did you learn"?

What enviroments are in place where you trained or went to school?

I'm old, being over 40, and Waterloo was teaching COBOL (reporting page break problems mostly) or FORTRAN (wasn't in that stream, dunno) and Pascal (Integration calculus problems) to the first and second years back the early 80's. Assembler came in second year). There was not BSc in Computer Science, Waterloo offered a BMath.

High school, previous to that, was just getting a Commodore PET when I was in grade 13, so classes were at a grade 9 level. There was more typing and turning on/off than programming, but it was BASIC.

Thanks for listening,
Brian Tiffin

[wtd]

HTML -> Javascript -> CSS -> Perl -> Fortran90 -> Python -> and then everything went nuts and at various points after that I learned...

C, C++, Objective-C, D, Eiffel, Ruby, Pascal, Ada, Common Lisp, Scheme, Pike, Groovy, Scala, Java, C#, PHP, O'Caml, SML, Haskell, Erlang, Sather, and probably some others I'm forgetting right now.
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[Nick]

Turing > C++ > Python > starting Java on thursday

I don't exactly know C++ or Python inside out or claim to be good at them I'm just saying that's the order I've attempted to learn them in

[rdrake]

VB6 -> Turing -> HTML -> CSS -> JS -> PHP -> Ruby -> C++ -> C# -> Java

Not sure if HTML/CSS counts, but whatever.

Those are the ones I either knew or know well. Fortunately I've forgotten some, unfortunately I've forgotten others.

[Tony]

Turing -> VB6 -> C++ -> Java -> Ruby -> C -> C# -> PHP -> JS

That would be a rough order of first exposure to a language. Some are obviously more in-depth than others. I lightly touched C# while playing around with XNA, Java's covered in school, and I work with Ruby professionally.

[PaulButler]

I started in QBASIC.

[iluvchairs112]

started HTML on my own
then Turing and Java at school
attempted some others but gotten bored with them

[CodeMonkey2000]

Turing>C>C++>Ruby>Pascal>VB
And next semester I will be learning Java.

[OneOffDriveByPoster]

QBASIC -> DOS Batch -> HTML -> VB6 -> C -> VBScript > JScript -> CSS -> XSLT -> Java -> C# -> C++ -> Haskell -> Prolog -> bash scripts -> Python -> Perl; maybe some others and forgetting what I learned

[Mackie]

code:

HTML ---> CSS ---> JavaScript -----> PHP -----> Turing ----> VB6...  |         |___Ruby ...Phailed...     |            |____ C...  |                                    |            |____ Python...  |_____ C++ ... Phailed....           |___ C++...  |____ Ruby...                                                    |____ Assembler...                                                                                                           |____ VB.Net...

The ones with an ellipses folling them I am still learning. Granted I am still only 15 I think I'm doing ok.

[zylum]

actionscript 1.0 > html > turing > java > c/c++ > brainfuck > ruby > python > (actionscript 3.0 and scheme) <- being learned atm..

[MichaelM]

Learned some HTML on my own > Played with Game Maker ( if that even counts) > Learned Turing @ school > Trying to teach myself some Scheme (in prep for university)

[Sean]

Turing - VB

[uberwalla]

turing, html, css, javascript, a little php, a little linux, java, starting to learn c/c++ now.

[syntax_error]

don't think HTML/CSS counts but that first then a bit of C for the heck of it then Turing at school after that Java at school and now im thinking to take Java again in Gr11 ...
but ya..
also since everyone made a nice chart heres mine

HTML/CSS ==> *C ==> *Turing ==> *Java

* mean I have tired more scripting in between never got into it really not into web design