When and why did you start learning to code? First language?

Question

I won't repeat the question...my first experience with code was in qbasic, in primary school, i was 13. Now in gymnasium, we're learning C++ but right now we're focusing on some html stuff.

Answer 1

I started learning HTML as my first markup language Thirteen years ago....hehehe..old learner...lol

Answer 2

HTML, CSS, Javascript, C#, Java, JSP,...

Answer 3

C++

Chose randomly because I was bored eating chips

Answer 4

I started with BASIC. BASIC and the GOTO nightmare. Spaghetti code that should never be used in modern languages.

Answer 5

qBasic thats old.

I started last year with C (its old too)

On sololearn I started with C++.

Answer 6

Let's be clear:
Basic had numbered lines. You wanted to call a function, you used it's number not name. And that was a long time ago........

Qbasic did away with numbered lines, and let you instead define functions and methods by name. You could even call a method in another file! Woah 🤣😂

And now you know the difference, and that I'm old. Well kinda 😄

Answer 7

Was sitting around board still thinking HTML meant hotmail, lol. I was curious. It's gone from a curiosity to a passion. Learned HTML now on to CSS, Java, and C#, C++, and PHP then more to come.

Answer 8

So I resented that authority figures used their fear, ignorance and incompetence to justify violence, shaming and threats of an innocent child whose only crime was curiosity and a desire to learn. How dare you learn anything in school that might actually give you power over authority!

I routinely did math problems in my head and faster than the teacher did on the board, and incorrectly, and attempted to correct them, which they responded to by using my physical disability status as a justification to go color with (or eat) crayons with the mentally disabled kids. This is the core of a lifelong disgust with power structures based upon fear, ignorance, violence, prejudice, control, shaming, and so on. It reinforced my desire to seek knowledge, to understand the fallacy that knowledge is power, because power is not knowledge (look at our President, prime example). I enjoy the personal power afforded by knowledge, to think and act independently, to fix whatever annoys me, to pursue what interests me, to satiate my curiosity, to inspire comprehension in others, and maybe leave behind a few things in this world besides debt and ashes when I die.

Answer 9

Someone suggested it on one of the groups am in. Sql( havent't finished learning about it) branched to Html, Css, JavaScript.

Answer 10

I started to learn code about...one week ago😁,in solo learn too..before it I never learned it..and I started it with C++,better cuz I enjoy it😂im 14th btw

Answer 11

Started during toddler years. First language was English, dialect Neurolinguistic Programming. With a few words, you can put an idea in someone's head, step back and watch them run your "code" :3

Jokes aside, it was the mid-1980s, BASIC on TRS-80 and Commodore 64. I had grade school teachers who were in their 60-80s, were very fearful of computers. I had no fear, just curiosity, so I tried running a math game as it was more fun than boring prefix and suffix lessons in English. But the game wasn't in the floppy drive or something, so my computer locked up. I pretended it crashed and restarted every time a teacher came by so it looked like there was text on it. Then went to recess.

The teacher came out and assaulted me (a physically disabled child), pulled me off a ladder and I fell with foot twisted. She was grabbing my arm hard and pushing me and yelling that I was in trouble because now NONE of the computers started and nobody knew how to fix it, so someone had to call someone's son who was a programmer and it would cost $40/hr or more (roughly equivalent to $400/hr today).

Answer 12

Yea, basic really is old. Still, it was the only thing my school had to offer, and was enough to get me interested in programming

Answer 13

i was in diploma(3 years course after 10 of computer engineearing). In first year we have c programming and html. so i am learn both of them. After come to sololearn learn many and multiple languages,various new things.

Answer 14

I started out with LOGO first(Yeah, that's not a real programming language) ... when I was 8... But left this field for 3 years. Again here I am🖱😋

Answer 15

I started with HTML (not coding language) in 7th grade. in 8th I moved onto CSS and JavaScript, but I never grasped enough to do much beyond a simple calculator. Then my friend introduced me to Java. in high school I did Java and C# in class. freshman year of college I started C++. Now I'm learning Python in anticipation of using it for applied mathematics.

I started programming because it was really cool to create programs. Also my friend made a Rubik's cube solving robot and turned his phone into a VR headset for science fair. I still have gotten to his level, but I am helping with an app (using Java).

Answer 16

qBasic was the first, but in SoloLearn I started to learn Java (to create new modes for minecraft (why not? xD)) to begin coding :) So, my robofriends (I was calling my friends like that when I was not coding) recommended this language :)

Answer 17

My first language was Turbo Pascal when i was 12 years old. My school friend who had already completed a programming course showed me how to write programs for MS-DOS system, i was interested and signed in for that course too. Also we learned Basic in school but Pascal seemed more advanced to me in that time. Later we tried to create some animations and games on Flash using ActionScript, then wrote simple programs on Delphi, tried to create sites when we got access to Internet and did many other experiments. I completed a college, got a work in IT and rest of my life was around computers from that time.

Answer 18

I started to learn coding as I was very much interested in that and moreover I love coding.. it tests ur mental ability to solve problems..
my first language was c.. then I learnt c++ java php html css js jquery sql Python and still learning 😜

Answer 19

i started to pogram with the Timex Sinclair 1000, I had to conect it to my T.V. there wasnt monitors to it. The language was Visual Basic. It had a 16 kbytes in memory expandible

Answer 20

I started learning Visual basic.net at school 8 years ago.