I Learned 30 Programming Languages In 25 Years: Here’s What To Expect

I Learned 30 Programming Languages In 25 Years: Here’s What To Expect Jan Kammerath · Follow 12 min read · Just now Just now — Share

My programming journey started all the way back in 1997. It’s been over 25 years since. The first programs I made were all on Windows 95 and Windows 98. Keep in mind that at the time I was 12 years old. An age that many kids in the era started programming at. My first programming language was Logo inside MicroWorlds from LCSI that I got from my parents as a present.

What To Expect After Learnging 30 Programming Languages in 25 Years

When I exceeded the capabilities of Logo and the small MicroWorlds environment, I went on to Visual Basic. For a very simple reason: it was available to me and it was easily available inside Microsoft Office as a playground. Visual Basic 6 was the first real programming language that I got in contact with.

Early web development

Since the Internet was the latest an greatest in the late 90s, web development was something everyone wanted to learn. I got myself a copy of Sierra Web Artist early on to build my own website. Although I had done some HTML 3, really HTML 4 was the first time I was able to build more complex web pages. I also learned CSS early when a guy at a LAN party (it was a thing back then) got me into it. JavaScript always had me excited. Not so much as a language, but mostly because of the possibilities it offered for web pages.

Like many people of my age, I spend a good amount of time in my life making my JavaScript code work in both Internet Explorer 4 and Netscape Navigator 4. My personal preference was always the Navigator and maybe that’s also why I stick to Firefox. Firstly because Firefox is, in my opinion, the best browser there is and secondly it reminds me of Netscape Navigator every day.

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Server-side in ASP and PHP

The first serious programming language you start with tends to stick for quite a while. When I began programming, everything was new and unknown. The comfort of at least knowing a single programming language like Visual Basic gave some comfort. That’s why my first server-side code in web development was in VB6 with Microsoft ASP on IIS. Since that was an expensive technology back in the…

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