Hello, I don’t know why im starting this topic but. 
How old you starting programming ?
What is you first programming language ?
What is you favorite programming language ? why ?
Sorry for my bad English (And Subject ?) language.
10 or 11 cannot remember
basic(justbasic to be exact ;))
java. It is much more centralized than C++, and it is OOP
7 , basic hello on the screen :persecutioncomplex:
visual basic
java : taught at Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne (who substituted for ADA and Lisp as I remember)
I started programming at 18,
Turing, a programming language oriented to teach the basics, very similar to pascal in sintaxis.
my Top 3 favorites are Java, Perl, and C (not C++).
Why Java? Because of the big API included in the SDK (not counting J2EE/J2ME)
How old you starting programming ?
Eight years old, copying programs from computer magazines, realizing I could probably change them. I could.
What is you first programming language ?
BASIC on C64/C128
What is you favorite programming language ?
That would be Java. 
why ?
It feels relatively “pure” and is very fast to write code in while still being fast.
jsut a tip for u Sueamanu, we are all going ot like java the most :P, we are on a jaav forum lol.
Technically when I was around 7 (maybe younger), but it was all very, very simple stuff in AMOS. Properly I would say when I was 16 with Blitz Basic. However for years before then I had been building things with the RPG Maker which contains most of the concepts needed for programming.
My favourite is probably Ruby, I always enjoyed writing Ruby code. You can write simple perfectly readable lines of code, which are also baffling with power and complexity all the same time. It’s one of the few languages where I wrote code solely for the pleasure of writing code.
My other favourite is Java. I hate writing Java code, but I do very much enjoy getting things done. If I wrote my stuff in Ruby I would have no where near as much completed.
- 9
- BASIC + Assembly (all learned through Compute’s Gazette!)
- So, I won’t go the obvious route with the favorite current language, but one that made a huge impression on me when I was much younger was PASCAL. It was procedural, required you to write structured code/data and, the biggest issue with starting in BASIC, I did not have to worry about running out of line numbers between sets because I didn’t leave room
God, yes, wow. My nostalgia suddenly flared up when I read your reasons for liking it. I had the exact same experience.
I learned the little assembler I know in my Turbo Pascal days, inlining asm for speed and fun.
Yeah…moving off of BASIC to PASCAL was really exciting when you started looking at structure, understanding global/local variables in the header, making changes to the vars and seeing the effect instantly in your results across all of your code, etc. In fact, it is kind of the same “smile” effect when you build complex spreadsheets and see the numbers magically change with variable changes. SIGH good times…
Oh, and the WORST most disgusting “code” to work in? Paradox scripting. Lost a bit of my soul doing that…
Started editing/programming games on my older brother’s graphing calculator when I was in 6th grade… so I was 11.
The Assembly type language they have on the TI calculators (I was using a TI-81) is what I started on.
Java is obviously my favorite, following that, PHP is probably my favorite. I like Java because of its clear structure, logical variable names and overall organization, and wonderful docs. I like PHP for a lot of the same reasons, but I also just enjoy programming in PHP for whatever reasons.
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Sadly, C++.
I like the syntax, I like pointers, I REALLY like operator overloading and proper working const variables.
But the split between header files and definition files, forcing you to write code TWICE and with horrible horrible syntax… Well… I hate it. A lot.
(Also, it takes ages to compile. It doesn’t have to.)
The clean, clearly defined, contained, singly defined (usually) classes in java are wonderful.
I’m not very fond of the operator overloading in C++, the other features named are from C, that’s the reason for liking C and not C++.
Just try Objective-C and XCode. You’ll want to hammer your own head in. It takes up to 2 minutes to compile my game at this point (because you have to wait for the whole thing to install on the iPhone), plus the language has all the problems you hate plus a whole lot more. It’s very difficult to implement private methods, there are wacky inconsistencies with “garbage collection,” almost everything is black-boxed, the docs are terrible, XCode is buggy as hell (to the point that you will compile and it sometimes won’t even list all the syntax errors in the build results, so you have to go through every source file manually to try to find them, or run the program and have it crash because of a syntax error you weren’t informed of!), XCode is practically feature-less (terrible code completion, awful workspace flow, doesn’t even organize the damn class files in alphabetical order!), and more, and more.
8,
Basic or Logo - can’t remember which was first, but definitely did more in Basic,
Java is my favourite language - fast, clean, easy to refactor, picks up a lot of simple mistakes that can take hours to track down in other languages.
C++ would be my least favourite language as well - it’s an utter mess. There are so many gotchas, it’s unbelievable, and coding with a team of C++ coders is a pain. Someone will want to do everything with templates, someone else will want to do everything with functions, someone else will want a Goldplated OO design with inheritance 20 layers deep and surprise, surprise, none of it will work well together. Maintaining the C build & link model was a huge mistake, as well. Classic ‘design by committee’ language.
Other languages I’m fond of are C and LISP.
Started at 11 years old with QBasic. Java is my favorite, the tools make it great.
How old you starting programming ? Around 10-12
What is you first programming language ? Logo and Basic
What is you favorite programming language ? atm Java but presume I may be forced back to C++
I have no idea how old I was but it was ridiculously young.
I kinda started in BASIC on a ZX81, but properly started on a Spectrum ;D
Favorite language I wouldn’t like to say, but Java would obviously be up there.
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Fond memories ;D I spent many a computer science class writing a 3D engine in Turbo Pascal/assembler. Maybe I should’ve been listening ???
I’m told I was copy typing code from magazines into a ZX81 when I was 4, but I don’t remember of course Code has always been there ™.
First programming langauge was BASIC on the ZX81, then on to assembly Z80, then Spectrum and Commodore 64 (with those grand 3 channel sound chips). STOS and AMOS in the 16 bit era. Then TurboPascal, QuickBasic and ASM on the PC. Finally I’m here wasting my life away
Java is probably my fave language, more through familarity then anything else. I was a fan of Haskell for a while, more recently Ruby (and Rails). In general I don’t really care about the language, they’re all pretty similar on the code level. It’s tools and deployment options that matter.
Kev
Started at 8. But not really coding just copying from some books I found in my primary school library. I had an old apple 2C green screen comp that used to be my older brothers. I dont even know what language it was. Basically you would copy pages of code to get a game working.
fun with brun
then I guess it was micro worlds. I know its not a programming language but it helped me understand key concepts of OOP. Then finally having my first bash at C++
I guess im also a java fanboy. In all honesty I dont really enjoy programming in any other language, no good reason. Its just that I have found a way to do everything iv wanted in Java.