There has been this urge for me to ask programmers quite a few questions to try and build a simple "database" of sorts. The main purpose of wanting to do this is to try and form relationships. There are also a lot of potential other uses. Mostly it's selfish in the regard I want to know programmers more.

Without further ado I ask you to please answer the following questions:

1) What was the first programming language you studied?

2) Did you have any Computer Science background before your first language (ie: boolean algebra, memory organisation, algorithms)?

3) The first language you studied was it self-taught, formal instruction, or both?

4) Was the Computer-Science background self-taught, formal instruction, or both?

5) When you started to study Computer Science did it help your understanding of the language you first learned?

6) What kind of environment did you first program in (ie: the IDE or text editor, and the OS)?

Thanks for your time.

1) What was the first programming language you studied?

I believe it was Applesoft BASIC for the Apple IIe

2) Did you have any Computer Science background before your first language (ie: boolean algebra, memory organisation, algorithms)?

I learned to program quite a bit before college, so no.

3) The first language you studied was it self-taught, formal instruction, or both?

Self-Taught generally using the appendix of books with descriptions of key words.

4) Was the Computer-Science background self-taught, formal instruction, or both?

Technical college.

5) When you started to study Computer Science did it help your understanding of the language you first learned?

No. It did however teach me C++ and assembly. More importantly, it gave me the understanding of how computers work on a low level that I wanted.

6) What kind of environment did you first program in (ie: the IDE or text editor, and the OS)?

The Apple IIe and C64 that I learned to program with involved writing programs using the OS. In college I learned to C++ using an IDE that came with Borland C++ 4.01. I forget what IDE I used while learning Win32 programming.

1) What was the first programming language you studied?

2) Did you have any Computer Science background before your first language (ie: boolean algebra, memory organisation, algorithms)?

3) The first language you studied was it self-taught, formal instruction, or both?

4) Was the Computer-Science background self-taught, formal instruction, or both?

5) When you started to study Computer Science did it help your understanding of the language you first learned?

6) What kind of environment did you first program in (ie: the IDE or text editor, and the OS)?

1) What was the first programming language you studied?

- BASIC

2) Did you have any Computer Science background before your first language (ie: boolean algebra, memory organisation, algorithms)?

- No

3) The first language you studied was it self-taught, formal instruction, or both?

- Dad-taught

6) What kind of environment did you first program in (ie: the IDE or text editor, and the OS)?

- MS-DOS

1) What was the first programming language you studied?

BASIC

2) Did you have any Computer Science background before your first language (ie: boolean algebra, memory organisation, algorithms)?

No.

3) The first language you studied was it self-taught, formal instruction, or both?

Self-Taught

4) Was the Computer-Science background self-taught, formal instruction, or both?

Self-Taught

5) When you started to study Computer Science did it help your understanding of the language you first learned?

Yes.

6) What kind of environment did you first program in (ie: the IDE or text editor, and the OS)?

GW-BASIC. IBM PC AT would boot into GWBASIC environment when the boot disk not present.

1) What was the first programming language you studied?

QBasic in DOS

2) Did you have any Computer Science background before your first language (ie: boolean algebra, memory organisation, algorithms)?

No

3) The first language you studied was it self-taught, formal instruction, or both?

Self-taught

4) Was the Computer-Science background self-taught, formal instruction, or both?

Self-taught

5) When you started to study Computer Science did it help your understanding of the language you first learned?

I never studied Computer Science. But my game programming courses didn't help much as I had already learned everything by myself. But my background helped me get good grades.

6) What kind of environment did you first program in (ie: the IDE or text editor, and the OS)?

QBasic had it's own text editor in DOS