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My real, true first exposure to programming was Qbasic on a Windows XP machine, followed by real BASIC on a Commodore 64, then Java. But I don't count any of th
by utensil4778 2y ago
My real, true first exposure to programming was Qbasic on a Windows XP machine, followed by real BASIC on a Commodore 64, then Java. But I don't count any of that, I never really built anything, just plugged in examples. I consider my true native language to be C#. It was the first language I ever built anything real with, and my first taste of what being a Real Programmer was.
It absolutely has flavored my programming in any language. The way I name and structure things is ""bad"" C++ programming, but I'm fluent in C# concepts in a way I'm not with other languages.
I've also developed a deep distaste for non-C languages. Or maybe I'm just getting old and curmudgeonly.
- derstander 2y ago> My real, true first exposure to programming was Qbasic on a Windows XP machine, followed by real BASIC on a Commodore 64, then Java. What’s the story behind your starting with Windows XP and then moving back to a Commodore 64? For me, by the time Windows XP rolled around, my Commodore (128 not 64) was sadly long gone — given away at a garage sale by my parents while I was off at college.
- utensil4778 2y agoWe had essentially a computer club in middle school. The teacher introduced us to QBasic. Later in high school I took a programming course which was Java. I found the C64 at a flea market around the same time and found it much more interesting than the make-work java problems we were doing in school.