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^I don't think I was aware of JSP at the time, but the books I started with were very likely based on it. My first programming book was Fortran 77 by Larry Nyhoff. Two other books that really got me started were Stephen Garland's Introduction to Computer Science (which is where I learned Pascal) and Thomas Cormen's Introduction to Algorithms. Plus, there's Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming.
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^ I think most of us old school programmers learned JSP - Jackson's Structured Programming - at some time.
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I first learned BASIC on an Apple IIe in high school around 1986. Then in college I dabbled with Fortran 77, Pascal, C, Rexx, CMS EXEC 2, Scheme, PDP-11 assembler, and COBOL, all on an old VM/CMS mainframe (except Scheme was on a Unix system). I have a BS degree in computer science, but ended up working in a library where it's been mostly database stuff and not much programming (though for a long time I cataloged rare books which was neat). I occasionally wrote scripts in AutoIt or VBA stuff for Excel, but more so XSLT for metadata crosswalks. I'm really rusty now when it comes to formal programming languages since I haven't done anything serious since college (you know, like flow networks or complex data structures).
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My first experiences with programming were in Fortran, in 1978. After some years, I started hobbying in BASIC in 1986 or so. I learned COBOL and that was my occupation for some 12 years. Since 2000, my core businesses are Java and SQL.

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Yes, been coding since the mid 80s. Mostly Java in my professional work, and a little bit of JavaScript/TypeScript and also Kotlin as of late. The AwesomeProg codebase consists roughly of 50% Kotlin (backend) and 50% TypeScript (frontend).

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It's many years since I did any programming - I started out at uni in the mid 70's learning Algol 60, Fortran IV, Cobol (I forget which version) and Assembler for the PDP11. Then in the 90's I progressed onto Pascal, Cobol (again), and C+.

All of which were quite challenging, tho the biggest 'programming' challenge I've had to handle was writing advanced macros in Lotus 1-2-3 (remember that?) to solve complex trigonometric problems.

Edited by Floydoid - April 14 2025 at 13:25
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Hi, I wanted to know if some fellow developers are around.

If so, what is your stack? I'm a gopher.

I started programming when I was 11 years old. My first language was C and I remember installing Ubuntu for the first time at 12 on my old laptop. Great times!

Edited by Gnik Nosmirc - April 14 2025 at 13:11
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