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What was your guys first language and where did you learn it.(wants to learn C/C++)

Fortran I. I am giving away my age.

My favorite language is PERL.

ruveyn

The intro course I had to take was taught in Java, so I know Java up to the extent of building data structures and doing the asymptotic analysis.

I suck at programming though - it doesn't help that I don't find it enjoyable and don't program 'for fun' (which is apparently the make-or-break factor between good and bad programmers).

Currently reading a book from the Eighties... written assuming you have DOS and a 3.5" drive and everything... on C. I'd like to learn C only because it's the 'gold standard' - not because I ever expect to program in it (let alone program at all).

Basic on a Commodore Vic 20 back in 1983. Learned it myself.

basic as in visulal basic. also how did you learn it yourself

I first learned basic Java in High School and then I learned C++ last semester in college.

BASIC on a TRS-80 back in 6-7th grade, in about 1980. It was at a small (like 3-4 kids) summer school class at a school that was within walking distance (which wasn't the school I attended during the regular term). Spent a lot of following summers in the 'computer room.'

BASIC on a TRS-80

Java, unless batch files also count.

Pascal back in 95.

FORTRAN... in 1965, I guess. I don't think I started on C until 1984-ish.

Fortran again - 1968. There was some mucking about with boolean algebra and home-built shift registers before that, though.

I bumped into C in 1981 - Whitesmiths C - but didn't program seriously in it until the nineties.

Current favourite? XQuery

Basic as in Commodore Vic 20 Basic. I read a book (Autodidact, like with most things).

Visual basic was a windows product created in the 1990s.

it is interesting how many people started with the trs-80. i did too.
that was my fist language. it was "extended color basic" on a tandy trs-80 color computer 2 (64k memory). that was when i was 11. i learned it myself. i can not remember how. i think i read the manual that gave me examples of programs i could write and i got the idea. then i found a part of the rom memory that stored every command and function, and i read the names of the commands and functions and i experimented with their usage and learned.

then i got an edt-asm assembly language rom cartridge and programmed in assembly language. it was lightning fast compared to basic which had to go through an interpreter/compiler.

these days i program in VFP9 (visual foxpro 9) which is based on "dbase" which in turn is based on "xbase". (i used to program in the original foxpro for dos in the 1990's (it was not microsoft then))

i also program in visual basic when i have to (microsoft office application interface data preparation and display).

i learned cobol because i had to only to solve one problem for the company i worked for and i hated it. ("environment divisions" and "procedure divisions" etc were so cumbersome).
the company i worked for dumped cobol after that thankfully and i rewrote a new system for them with foxpro 2.5.

Yep,

10 Basic on a TRS-80 Model III at home
20 goto 10

Can't remember if it was COBOL 74 (Completely Obnoxious Boring Old Language) or RPG II (the program, not the rocket...

not sure if RPG II should count as a language; mainly it was filling out forms...