First programming memories
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What language did you start with, what was the first "aha" moment, or what got you addicted?
It was quite a long time ago, but I believe that my first language was logo. I picked it up in elementary school and learned how to make the turtle do a lot of things. I spent part of the school year teaching it to draw the flags of the world, which was a pretty neat exercise for me at the time.
Shortly after that, I discovered on our home computer a thing called QBasic--although at the time it may have actually been QuickBasic, I don't remember clearly anymore. Logo was kinda fun, but pretty limited in its scope, so it wasn't that addictive for me. When I started writing basic, I got pretty hooked pretty quickly. I think it was because it just felt like magic.
I had a friend who lived nearby who was also interested in computers, so we would teach each other what we learned about QBasic, which was a lot of fun for me at the time. I eventually bought a book about QBasic, which helped us learn a lot faster.
When we eventually got the Internet, I was able to get a newer version that could compile my code into a standalone executable, which was pretty exciting. It made it so I could more easily share my programs with other people. There were also a lot of great examples of programs to look at and learn from, which really helped me grow.
I then became very interested in building web pages and also GUI programs. So, I dabbled in HTML, and other languages like Visual Basic and a really obscure language called C--. After a while, I was only interested in web-related languages, and spent a lot of time writing PHP.
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