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[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounds very similar to my own experience though there was a large amount of Pascal in between BASIC and C.

[–] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, I skipped Pascal, but it at least makes sense when you look at it. By the time my family finally jumped over to PC, C was more viable. Then in college, when I finally had to opportunity to formally learn, it was just C++ and HTML... We didn't even get Java!

[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

I had used like four different flavors of BASIC by the time I got a IBM compatible PC, but I ended up getting on the Borland train and ended up with Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, and Turbo ASM (and Turbo C++ that I totally bounced off of). I was in the first class at my school that learned Java in college. It was the brand new version 1.0.6! It was so rough and new, but honestly I liked it. It's wildly different now.