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Discussion on: What is the first programming language that you learned?

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Sylvie Fiquet

My dad introduced me to Basic as a teenager. It was awful. You had to type a number at the start of each line, not even 1, 2, 3.., it went 100, 200, 300..., which made no sense to me. And then there were all the GOTOs. I decided then that programming was incredibly tedious.

A few years later, as I was looking for a new direction, my husband pushed me to give programming another go with Pascal. I taught myself from a book and it wasn't long before I was hooked. No typing line numbers, no stupid gotos. Instead you had lovely functions, and powerful things like structures, arrays and pointers... It made total sense and it was actually fun!

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Suraj Vishwakarma

Today, programming language are becoming easy to understand and implement without having a lot of trouble in writing useless code. With powerful extension that we have coding has become easy as we compared to past years. As you said today it make sense and it has fun also.⭐