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[increpare]

Mine was Delphi



Oh the nostalgia!  I spent the first year messing about with the tables before I actually figured out how to program anything by hand

For years it was still the language I would think in, and I thought it would always be, but I seem to be a lot less chained to any one language now.

Man.  Major nostalgia rush.

[Problem Machine]

Quickbasic 

[Terry]

Aw.

Mine was C64 BASIC!

I used to try to make games about my teddy bears. I'd usually run out of memory three screens into the game though, cos' I hadn't a clue what I was doing.

Wish I still had some of those games...

[Ivan]

I started with BASIC on the ZX Spectrum, which was my first computer. It was a bootleg ZX Spectrum that a friend of my mom built for me and it had no disk drive, so I had to of course load everything off audio tapes, but alas i could not save to them, so when I wrote something I would be proud of, I'd keep the thing on until it eventually overheated and reset.

[Mr. Yes]

Python. I never actually used it for anything notable, but it was a good starting point in learning to program (and this was only a year ago, believe it or not. I haven't been programming for very long)

By now I've completely forgotten everything I learned about it, since all I'm really using now is C++, but I know some day I'll go back to it. It really is a great language, and I didn't actually realize how great it was until I started using C++.

[Gold Cray]

Technically my first language was FORTRAN, but I didn't really understand what I was doing and started using Visual Basic later the same year.

I didn't really do much until I learned C++ in eighth grade, though.

[kyn]

Mine was Pascal in this DOS-like environment



It really was counter productive working in this ugly blue screen, creepy ancient shit

[Terry]

I spent a lot of time working with QBasic - sometimes I kinda miss the blue screen

[Gnarf]

First thing I tried making anything with was The Games Factory/Klik & Play. I got a demo of TGF from some magazine, then a full version of K&P from some other magazine, then a pirated full version of TGF from some guy. I made some thing with Liero like movement and "sort of" destructible terrain with TGF. It might have been a bit impressive for a TGF thing :| The only thing I "finished" (but never released or any such nonsense) was a top-down deathmatch thing with Star Wars guys in it. Which is a bit strange because I've never really been into Star Wars. For the record, most of the unfinished stuff had animals like sheep and pigeons and stuff in them; animals are a lot cooler than Star Wars.

First programming language I used might have been DarkBASIC or Blitz Basic. I tried out a ton of stuff. Messed with some QBasic, some Pascal stuff, failed horribly at learning any C/C++ quite a few times. Eventually got a full version of Blitz Basic with some magazine (magazines are awesome like that) and stuck with that for a while. Made half a horrible Jump'n'Bump clone that had some dogs in it.

It sort of sucked. I had some internets and some vague and wrong ideas about what I was looking for. Would've been cool if anyone where/when I grew up knew shit about computers and could have like given me a couple of hints or something. Oh well. Thank fuck there's university. It's all objects and models and machine code and shit these days. Wicked.

[moi]

I think I win

[Hinchy]

Flash ActionScript 2.0.

[deadeye]

Mine was BASIC on the TRS-80 Color Computer.  Later I moved on to Quickbasic.

I also played around with Hypertalk a lot.  I started by reading a book on Hypertalk over the summer with no access to a Mac at all.  The only reason I read it is because it looked neat.  I just went back to school in the fall and started making stacks like I'd been doing it for years.

I miss Hypercard  Why don't they have something like that now?

I think I win

Holy crap, is that for real?

[moi]

Yeah I coded with that (but you couldn't do much with it)

[Farbs]

I think I win

I think you're right.

I started with BASIC on whatever 8-bit computer I could get my hands on. Apple IIe, C64 etc.

[andy wolff]

before i knew anything about programming or computer graphics i had thought that computers had a gigantic database of pictures that they showed you instead of layers of pictures, pixels, and other vectory stuff, and that when you gave input it would choose a different picture depending on what happened. awesome, no?

then i found BASIC, and within weeks was making epic text adventures. I downgraded to a TI-83 calculator for a bit, but after the pain it took to make even pong on such a thing (typing on a calc is unbearable), i gave up temporarily on programming. after a short hiatus filled with everything from 3d modelling to midi music, someone told me about Game Maker. hooray for GML.

now i'm trying to decide what to upgrade to (C++ / C# or Delphi or Java or something else), because while i do love GM i need MORE POWER (and control).

i also almost bought RPGmaker 3 for the playstation 2.

[KennEH!]

Turing, the high-school a Pascal-ish language for  teaching high-school students.

[dustin]

um... possibly java if not that then visual basic

First thing I made anything in really though was fenix.

[David Pittman]

I spent a lot of time working with QBasic - sometimes I kinda miss the blue screen

This.  

I mucked around in GW-BASIC (on a 4-color CGA monitor) for a year or so before that, but QBasic was the language where I began to actually learn anything about programming. I still make sure to install a copy on every computer I own so I can boot it up whenever I get nostalgic for that blue IDE. I wish I'd understood debugging as a kid; somehow I never really learned to step through programs or watch variables in the Immediate window. Later, I picked up Visual Basic (noticing a trend?) and was finally forced to learn C/C++ in a matter of weeks for a college course that assumed knowledge of C++ but didn't tell the students that until the first assignment was handed out. Good times!

[reetva]

Flash ActionScript 2.0.

See above.

[Problem Machine]

Honestly even though it was my first I can't remember any QBasic at all. The only thing I remember was a lot of goto stuff. If someone dropped the QBasic IDE in front of me right now I'd have no idea what to do.
This is because I started learning C++ about 10 days later and liked it much more.