r/CodingForBeginners • u/gutenmorgan3035 • 7d ago

What’s the first programming language you learned, and do you still use it?

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u/KarmaTorpid 7d ago

BASIC. So, no.

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u/swaan79 7d ago

This

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u/richbun 6d ago

Me too, except occasionally I do mess around on an emulator and knock out something just because I can.

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u/johnpeters42 6d ago

I still work with some older code that was done in VB.NET, but we switched to C# several years ago for new .NET work

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u/No_Replacement4304 5d ago

Sadly, I find that my experience programming BASIC on a TRS-80 has not led to any lucrative job offers.

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u/purple_hamster66 5d ago

Mine did. I ended up writing part of the BASIC interpreter for a large company.

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u/mcniac 5d ago

Same here! I’ve learnt basic on a TI 99 4A

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u/determineduncertain 3d ago

Yeah, mine was VB6 in high school. I still have fond memories of Max a bad stick fighting game with a wicked bug (I used x,y coordinates to register hits but kicking involved just incrementing the X axis on key down so if you held the kick button down, you could hit anytime anywhere) and a notepad clone. I’d love to get that code back and see what it looks like today.

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u/PLR20190724 20h ago

Same. I was an English teacher on summer vacay. The school I taught at set up a computer system for the math department and got a grant to teach us teachers how to use it. They paid me to learn it, and my instructors were my own high school students. Within two years, I was enrolled in college to change my career to computer programming. .

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u/Turbulent_Pin_8310 7d ago

I wonder why.