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I was a kid learning programming languages and after QBASIC I struggled to find a language that I could grok as a 10-12yr old right before the turn of the mille
by folkhack 7y ago
I was a kid learning programming languages and after QBASIC I struggled to find a language that I could grok as a 10-12yr old right before the turn of the millennium. I shared with my uncle that C and C++ were difficult for me and he gave me a whole bunch of Turbo Pascal books... And I fell in love =)
Pascal was an approachable language and was exactly what I needed at the time to push forward, revisiting C in my highschool years. I built dumb Dragon Warrior clones, homework helpers, etc. It was super readable for me too.
Of course I look back with rose tinted glasses on but Pascal was a huge part of my programming growth - I will always remember it fondly!!
- badsectoracula 7y agoI also went from BASIC to Turbo Pascal (though in my case it was GW-BASIC) which i learned from a thick book - that book was my treasure for a long time as a kid. I remember being annoyed initially because i had to declare my variables before using them, but it was worth it since unlike GW-BASIC, Turbo Pascal was able to create EXE files (which was the only reason i decided to use it :-P).
- pjmlp 7y agoTo join my voices to the choir. Timex 2068 Basic, Z80, GW-Basic, Turbo Basic, 80x86 and then came to learn Turbo Pascal (started with 4.0 and did all of them up to Delphi 2). Thanks to this path I got to learn systems programming in high level mostly safe languages, modules, OOP and my very first framework experiences, Turbo Vision (OWL, VCL as well). For me this was a very lucky path, because I never got tainted that C and C++ were the only God sent programming languages for systems programming. And best of all, I never had any issues to deal with pointers in C and C++.