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Discussion on: What would you like your first programming language to be (or have been)?

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Gregor Gonzalez

Started with c++ and I don't like it, our teacher didn't explain anything and was a mess to understand.

Then VB. Same problem before but I get it fast.

PHP + Html + JavaScript. I love PHP because is easy to understand, is a good "start", I learned to code with this.

I prefer java for a starting language. More robust, strict and POO is important, also C#

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Evan Oman • Edited

I agree, Java is a great choice (especially Java 8/9). I think if more people used a good IDE (like IntelliJ) they wouldn't have as many issues with Java's verbosity. 90%+ of the characters in my code base were read from my mind by the IDE :D

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Gregor Gonzalez

Yes! That's a good point. I started to code with microsoft notepad xD then dreamweaver and later NetBeans and was amazing the change. Now I want to try intelliJ