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What was the first programming language that got you enthusiastic about programming?

When I was six years old my father bought a Texas Instruments computer in 1985 or so. It was cartridge based and only saved data to cassette tapes. It included a built-in programming language called TI-BASIC. I was so excited at the idea of making a game and it had a book on the language to learn from. It taught how to draw a really blocky person with ASCII. I loved it. TI-BASIC set the stage for C++, Pascal, Assembly and other languages. I was fortunate to have such an early introduction to programming.

31st Jan 2017, 6:21 PM
Derek Raimann
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javascript and c
31st Jan 2017, 8:25 PM
sebipincha
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I did some basic when I was really young, but when I started learning perl I really caught the programming bug.
31st Jan 2017, 9:36 PM
Jason Truland
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