Rented a book from the local library about Pascal, gave up, took the book back, never looked at it again.
Nothing wrong with the language itself, it was just me losing interest (as ever).
Dabbled with it when I first got into programming, using "C For Dummies Vols 1 and 2" grabbed from Amazon using my mum's credit card.
Never made that much progress with it; I lost interest and tried to tackle projects that were far too difficult for me at that stage.
Similar story as to mine with C. Again, lost interest for the same reasons but have increased confidence with it these days having used it recently.
Doesn't stop it from being highly dangerous and hideously complicated though :D
Learned VB6 at school for Standard Grade Computing. It seemed great at the time but has been eclipsed by the newer Microsoft toolset and a much better OO paradigm.
The first language we were taught on the first year CS course at St Andrews.
I'm still amazed at how many highly intelligent people just didn't understand basic OO concepts, and ended up dropping computing entirely.
Learnt the basics on an IT course in St Andrews. Also used it to power our hack for Hackday 2009.
It's absolutely horrible and is essentially one giant kludge, built on the dubious foundations of an early version of the UNIX command set. If you really want to torture yourself and avoid anything remotely resembling decent programming practices at the same time, then PHP is the way forward. MVC? What's that?
Used it for a logical deduction exercise at University. Had to use the "Hugs" system to correctly work through formal logical arguments.
It melted my brain. I don't understand it at all.
Taught it at University, and is now my language of choice for rapidly hacking stuff together.
It's great. It's like a version of Java that actually works. I use it over Visual Basic these days where possible.
