Programming Languages

Programming Languages shawnr has used:

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LOGO

Commodore BASIC

Forth

AppleSoft BASIC

VAX BASIC

Turbo Pascal

bash

LOGO

1982–1983

My first encounter with programming was in LOGO. It was in a second grade gifted and talented course in Phoenix, AZ (Desert Horizon Elementary, yo!).

Commodore BASIC

1983–1987

My dad bought the family a Commodore Vic 20, and then later a Commodore 128 and that's what I poked around on in the early days.

Forth

1984–1987

This was the second language I started playing with on my Commodore Vic 20. This was all kid-coder experiments, nothing fancy.

AppleSoft BASIC

1986–1989

Once I got into middle school we were able to get on the Apple II machines and do some simple programs.

VAX BASIC

1991–1993

All of my high school programming courses (both of them) were taught in VAX Basic. What fun that was...

Turbo Pascal

1995–1996

I only used Turbo Pascal for a few CS courses in college (until I changed my major to Creative Writing, like a sensible person).

bash

2004–

I still work in the BASH shell every day, and BASH scripting is a part of daily life.