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Ask HN: Which IDE was your first when you started coding?
My first one was Notepad++ on Windows then Xcode on MacOS, for a year I've been using only Visual Studio Code with many plugins.
- speakerbee 6y agoFree Pascal
- modinfo 6y agoInteresting, I never learned pascal, I started by learning PHP what php I can really well, I've been studying JS for a year now, where I learned NodeJS, NextJS, React, VueJS and Preact.
- llama123 6y agoblue j. Ah the joys of java.......
- dragonwriter 6y agoTurbo Pascal 3 for DOS was the first thing that could be called an IDE that I used, but not the first programming environment.
- modinfo 6y agoInteresting! I wish I had started programming so early!
- noir_lord 6y agoI did (1986) things aren't so different, hardware is monumentally faster and developer tools are more powerful but its still text describing what you want the machine to do in detail. The first three languages I learned are still around (BASIC, Pascal and C).
- noir_lord 6y agoSame but first programming environment was ZX Spectrum BASIC.
- ColinWright 6y agoMine was a single, blank screen with a prompt and flashing cursor on a Tandy Model I. Not sure you'd call it an IDE ...
- zhte415 6y agoPencil and paper with lots of boxes that we drew, with boxes inside them, and boxes inside them, all the way down because proofing code; sometimes you could get funky and draw boxes from the inside out.
- senshu 6y agoI thing it was Borland Turbo C++ 3.0 for MS-DOS. It had syntax highlighting, integrated help with full language and API documentation. Which was useful because I didn't have Internet access back then, at the beginning of the 1990's. I had to buy a new PC with an Intel 386 CPU, and add "extended memory" to run the IDE. It couldn't run with only 640 Ko of RAM.
- maverick74 6y agoSinclair BASIC on ZX Spectrum AHAHAHA
- modinfo 6y agoI just wrote my first program in Basic with my dad's help... I still remember that, guessing numbers from 1 to 10. It was great fun!
- maverick74 6y agoyeah, i had to learn it alone - my father didn't know how to program :p 10 PRINT "good old days" 20 GO TO 10 RUN AHAHA
- noir_lord 6y agoBorland Turbo Pascal.
- mister_hn 6y agoBorland C++
- DrScump 6y agoISPF on TSO (IBM mainframes), assuming that punch cards and mark sense cards don't count. In doing cleaning and purging on the house, I just found something I forgot I had: an ISPF implementation for use on MS-DOS!