I was really interested in the poll results and saw I was one of the oldest people here, so I want to see other people's votes too.
Age- 21
Languages;
BASIC
VB.Net
C++
HTML
Assembly
I'm best with basic, then VB.Net, then c++, I barely know HTML but I understand how it works. Same with assembly, I could write something in assembly if I wanted but I never bothered.
My favorite is C++, it's really annoyingly complicated but learning it is a really worthwhile investment since it's the main language used in most open source projects. I took a class for vb.net, I know that inside and out but honestly vb.net seems outdated. HTML seems to do everything vb.net can do better. No one wants to download extract and run a windows only application when they can visit a web page using any device, that's the future and vb.net isn't going to have a place in it. Basic is the opposite of c++ as it's really really easy to just do something quick and easy but isn't really a serious platform at all outside of SB. Assembly is deceptively easy to understand, it's just a mess trying to do anything with it.
I'm old.
I know a few languages or something.
I really disagree with the proliferation of C++. I don't think mixing low level and "high level" (if you can call it that) works. Just pick C or pick a high level language and stop trying to sit in the middle. You can't have the best of both worlds without also having the worst of both. I can't wait for it to die out. That being said, a language is just a tool, and language wars are silly. I just don't like C++ because it's unnecessarily hard. C is more low level and much easier than C++, and C#/(pick a high level managed language) is more high level and easier than C++. But there are (apparently many) people who don't mind the convolutions provided by C++, so it's not like I can say it's objectively a bad language. I just wonder whether they like it for the wrong reasons (like having pride in doing something so difficult).
CSS needs to take a few pointers from Windows Forms.
I think everyone should take an advanced compilers course so they can appreciate what they do for you (and why managed languages aren't actually all that slow).
If I'm being honest, I think that's really the main reason why I like C++, it's just so challenging. It's like a puzzle, and the idea that if you can master it your programs will will be really optimized is the end goal. I'd probably hate it if not for that. That and because nearly every single open source project I've ever come across has been written in C++. Yeah it's really stupid and you have to set tons of things up. I can't describe the nightmare that is trying to render a sprite on a window. It's actually hilarious. You need like 2000 lines of code.
I will learn Python at some point, or some other lower level language.
If I were to bash any language it would be Java. I've never used Java and I'm sure programming in Java is a breeze, but I couldn't explain to you how angry Java has made me corrupting itself on multiple computers and I think the idea of a programming language making executables that rely on other (unstable) programs you have to install kind of dumb.
Age of 13
Languages:
HTML (Completely trash though)
SmileBASIC (Both)
Java
My personal favorite is definitely Java. While I agree with jamieyello about the PC side of development, Java is the main programming language of android so I use it quite often (especially at my robotics club since we have to use android phones). That and I think it looks cool.
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30, smile basic is my only experience. I wouldn't even call myself an amateur. I'd call myself a hobbyist.
Smile Basic got me into Arduino and microcontrollers.
28.
SmileBASIC, Java, some Ruby.
Age 12
Born August 22, 2004
Have experience with SmileBASIC.
Age: 13
Experience: 3 or 4ish years maybe longer idk
Languages:
BASIC(SB)
BASIC (PTC)
HTML AND CSS
Tiny bit of Java and C++
Age: 14
Experience: 3 years
Languages where I can write good software:
SmileBASIC
(does regex count?)
N#
C++
Lua
Languages i've used before:
Brainfuck
Befunge
MATLAB
Languages I am learning:
HTML
CSS
Age: 16
Experience: Honestly, no idea. Can't possibly be more than 5 years, but probably more than 2.
Fluent languages:
SmileBASIC, Applesoft BASIC, Commodore BASIC v2, another BASIC dialect of which I forgot the name, whatever BASIC it is that TI\Casio calculators use (yes I've had to use all of these)
Languages in which I can competently perform simple operations:
Windows batch
6502 assembly
Languages I learned a while back but would probably have some trouble writing now:
Python
C++
Ruby
HTML
Age: 21
Experience: Well, I've been doing this on and off since Petit Computer was released, so that was five years ago? Wowzers.
Languages:
Petit Computer
SmileBasic
My dad's a professional computer programmer, so he knows a ton more languages than me. When he first started programming, they were using punch-cards, lol. He could probably teach me how to program on a computer if I asked, so in that sense I have a lot of potential to learn programming.
