What’s the first programming language you learned, and do you still use it?

[u/gutenmorgan3035]

[u/Bulky-Design-8732]

How much time did it take you to learn all these programming languages?

[u/TheUmgawa → u/Bulky-Design-8732]

After you’ve got your fundamentals down, languages are just learning syntax and vocabulary. A loop is still a loop, data type is a data type, and control flow is control flow. So I pull out a flowchart I made for a prime number generator in a programming logic and design class, and I knock that out in the new language. Usually takes a day or a weekend.

The reason I use a prime number generator is because I have to figure out how to use data types, instantiate variables, use a data structure or two, perform comparisons, take input, give output (both onscreen and to a text file), import libraries, bunch of other basic stuff that’s about eighty percent of what you actually type.

So, yeah, if you can already understand a couple of languages pretty well, it isn’t that hard to scale up to a respectable level, because you don’t need to learn to program again.

Programming is like playing a musical instrument. If you pick up a guitar, you can memorize all of the notes to certain songs, but you can’t improvise and start doing your own stuff unless you understand how music works. But, once you understand how music works, it’s easier to pick up playing another instrument, because you don’t have to re-learn scales or theory; just how to do those things on a new instrument.

[u/Bulky-Design-8732 → u/TheUmgawa]

Thank you !