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Developer's Corner / Re: Your First Programming Language vs Now
« on: November 23, 2017, 03:28 PM »
My first programming language was in school in 1990. It was Basic language and I didn't liked it much because of the fact that
a) Those black and white PC monitors with DOS were not very intuitive.
b) Teachers were all theory and no practical. Just for background, It was in New Delhi, and those days at least I had no idea what computers can really be used for. It
was not really a optional subject at school, I had to pick one between Mechanical Drawing and Computers as a mandatory subject and I don't know why i selected it.
c) I was 16 and had no patience. We lived in a world which had no relevance to anything which goes on in western world at that time. So computers were so really
new to me.
But those concepts really stick with me , and I moved from Basic to Pascal next year ( another subject ) and.. then after high school.. didn't do anything on computers
till 1995. By this time the whole Delhi scene was full on computers and we would hear stuff about Y2K coming in 5 years and world be in chaos. But still I didn't liked it and didn't felt like really going for programming as a career. Things actually changed in 1996 when I saw Oracle as a database and things clicked to me and i got interested in computers.. which started with building my own desktop. So really my first Programming language was PL/SQL and I really liked it back then. I moved to Java soon in late 90's and by 2002 I had got bored of just building same kind of applications using databases and wanted to do something different. I am glad i moved to SAP in 2002 by quieting my job in Singapore. Still sticking on to SAP and always trying to do multiple things to keep me interested in stuff I do.
a) Those black and white PC monitors with DOS were not very intuitive.
b) Teachers were all theory and no practical. Just for background, It was in New Delhi, and those days at least I had no idea what computers can really be used for. It
was not really a optional subject at school, I had to pick one between Mechanical Drawing and Computers as a mandatory subject and I don't know why i selected it.
c) I was 16 and had no patience. We lived in a world which had no relevance to anything which goes on in western world at that time. So computers were so really
new to me.
But those concepts really stick with me , and I moved from Basic to Pascal next year ( another subject ) and.. then after high school.. didn't do anything on computers
till 1995. By this time the whole Delhi scene was full on computers and we would hear stuff about Y2K coming in 5 years and world be in chaos. But still I didn't liked it and didn't felt like really going for programming as a career. Things actually changed in 1996 when I saw Oracle as a database and things clicked to me and i got interested in computers.. which started with building my own desktop. So really my first Programming language was PL/SQL and I really liked it back then. I moved to Java soon in late 90's and by 2002 I had got bored of just building same kind of applications using databases and wanted to do something different. I am glad i moved to SAP in 2002 by quieting my job in Singapore. Still sticking on to SAP and always trying to do multiple things to keep me interested in stuff I do.