Programming Experience
By rosdimy
@rosdimy (3926)
Malaysia
November 12, 2008 10:08pm CST
When did you learn programming? Which programming language did you use? What was your progress?
I first learned programming in 1977 when I was at Cambridgehire College of Arts and Technology. It was BASIC, using a terminal with no console. Input and output were immediately typed onto a roll paper. I moved on to Oric BASIC in 1983. Turbo Pascal 7.0 was next, followed by Turbo Pascal for Win. The natural progression was Delphi. I also dabbled with Visual BASIC. I taught myself and did not take any formal lessons. That is why I do not have any certificate in programming. Due to other pressing commitments I have not done any serious programming for several years.
I am starting this discussion because I thought our experiences may help others especially those who are interested in programming/history of programming.
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4 responses
@calyxus (825)
• Philippines
13 Nov 08
I learned programming in college. I studied at the University of Southern Mindanao, Philippines. I learned to program using C++, then using Java Programming, and later Visual Basic. We also use ASM to program microprocessors for our projects. We don't have certificates on these programming languages since it is a part of the curriculum. I am taking up Computer Engineering and we are more inclined on hardware than on software. But personally I like software more. lol ..So I try my best to learn to program and do graphics engineering.
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@redzredula (466)
• Philippines
13 Nov 08
well, i've started programming when i was in highschool. it was around 1999 or 1998. it stated with visual basic. then after that i've also tried Java, C, JSP, HTML, CSS and looking forward to learn more.
@redzredula (466)
• Philippines
14 Nov 08
nope. i haven't tried it yet. but i wish i had the chance to do it or learn to use it.
@kaka135 (14994)
• Malaysia
28 Nov 08
I started to learn programming when I was in my first year in university. I started with Ada, then Cobol, Pascal, and started a bit on machine language. Later, I studied Java, C and C++, Visual Basic 6.
When I started to work as a programmer, my company was using Visual Basic 6. Then we upgraded to .NET 1.1 with Visual Basic. After I joined this company, we started with Visual Basic 6, then .NET 2.0 C# and ASP.NET.
Now, I'm still using VB6 and C# to do my applications, whether it's windows forms or web applications.
@hoong143 (1397)
• Malaysia
12 Dec 08
I learnt programming when I was in university. I was studying Electrical Engineering, hence we have to study C++ and Java too. I was not interested in programming at all, thus I didn't do any programming after graduate.
@rosdimy (3926)
• Malaysia
12 Dec 08
Thank you for your response.
You are not interested in programming? Was it because you had an average lecturer whose skill in programming was also average, thus you found programming to be hard to understand? I ask this question which you are not obliged to reply because I have met programmers who are like that.
all the best,
rosdimy
rosdimy