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> "learn BASIC, learn Pascal, then learn C" So much of this! I remember the older kids talking about Pascal (they were using TurboPascal at the time) and to m
by vivin 13y ago
> "learn BASIC, learn Pascal, then learn C"
So much of this! I remember the older kids talking about Pascal (they were using TurboPascal at the time) and to me it was some mystical, highly-advanced form of magic, a sort of "more complex" BASIC. However, I never actually learned Pascal or used it, because I jumped directly from BASIC to C (actually ended up doing both for a while). The reason I even found out about C, was because I asked my computer teacher in junior high how people made games, and she told me that it was a language called C. So that summer I got myself an ANSI C book and started teaching myself C.
It was very difficult at first but I slowly got the hang of it. By junior year of high school we were doing C++, and having done C it was really easy for me to switch to C++.
- peapicker 13y agoI actually had Fortran-77 between Pascal and C. C, compared to Pascal, was like taking off the handcuffs.
- cleversoap 13y ago> how people made games In my experience this is the common question amongst everybody (myself included) that started programming young. Some adult somewhere (how sad that I don't remember) took me seriously enough and gave me some books so I started writing in C, BASIC, and assembly and I was too stupid to realise that it was supposed to be too hard for a 9 year old. Today (as in literally this moment in time) I am still writing C for games.
- zem 13y agoi taught myself c by prototyping programs in qbasic and then translating them as straightforwardly as possible. qbasic also had an absolutely brilliant integrated help system; that's one of the things i've always admired microsoft for.
- NKCSS 13y agoFor me it was QBASIC -> VB6 -> VB.NET, a path that a lot of people I know took as well.