re: #32 thedopefishlives

The first language we learned at my college (and I don’t know if it’s still that way) was C++. Period. If you survived that, we branched out a little bit, but the core of our education was C++ with the occasional drop into C for when we did the Linux kernel module in our operating systems class. Granted, this was before .Net became big, but it was during Java’s heyday and we really didn’t do a lot with that. I’m kind of glad, in retrospect. C++ programming taught me to respect the pointer.

The first programming language that I learned was FORTRAN.

Then: Pascal, PL/1, Basic and assembler.

I took one class in COBOL just because it was required.