Programming Languages and I
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1996
HTML isn't a programming language, but it is the first computer language of any kind that I learned. I reverse engineered a site that I liked -- I saved the .html file, stripped it down in Notepad into a minimal working skeleton, and figured out the skeleton. I soon had my first website up on Geocities (archive copy). It was about SimCity 2000, had a daring magenta background, and played the Independence Day theme in the background.
1997
I may have poked around with Javascript a bit, but only in the cargo cult sense of copying an image rollover script.
1998
The first programming language that I learned was Turing. Turing is what Ontario high schools use to teach programming in Grade 10 and 11. It has simple string-handling and graphics built into it. We learned a bit of boolean algebra, bubble sorting, and the like. Our final project in Grade 11 was a flatfile database.
1999
My parents bought Visual Studio 5.0 Subscription Edition and I hunkered down with a copy of Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days. It segued nicely into Grade 12 Computer Science
