I'm in no ways a seasoned pro, but I'll share:
First language was BASIC. Yeap. Good old BASIC using LibertyBASIC IDE that was shipped in a book called 'Programming for Dummies'
Learning BASIC really helped me understand the logic behind programming. I wasn't too fond of subroutines then and it was hard to do anything advanced with BASIC but the easiness of the language allowed me to practice my bug-testing skills.
After BASIC I moved on to C++. I got a copy of "C" by Dennis Ritchie and read it alongside a newer book on C++. C++ was great because it allowed me to have greater control over my code and exploit 'shortcuts' to solve problems in a quick and dirty fashion (I now realize that practice is not a really good idea when one is required to write easily readable code). Nowadays I'm sticking with Python as my projects don't require me to reinvent the wheel or mess around with lower level code in which I have a greater probability of messing things up.
I'm in no ways a seasoned pro, but I'll share:
First language was BASIC. Yeap. Good old BASIC using LibertyBASIC IDE that was shipped in a book called 'Programming for Dummies'
Learning BASIC really helped me understand the logic behind programming. I wasn't too fond of subroutines then and it was hard to do anything advanced with BASIC but the easiness of the language allowed me to practice my bug-testing skills.
After BASIC I moved on to C++. I got a copy of "C" by Dennis Ritchie and read it alongside a newer book on C++. C++ was great because it allowed me to have greater control over my code and exploit 'shortcuts' to solve problems in a quick and dirty fashion (I now realize that practice is not a really good idea when one is required to write easily readable code). Nowadays I'm sticking with Python as my projects don't require me to reinvent the wheel or mess around with lower level code in which I have a greater probability of messing things up.