Across this vast Fediverse, I have encountered a trend of people answering questions with esoteric programming language speaking in tongues that I don’t understand, including under my own posts. I am a Boomer when it comes to coding and I am only 27. I don’t even know where I would start to learn it because programming is so diverse. I want to feel like I know what’s going on but I don’t. Coding is the future and the future is now and I am lagging severely behind. I guess I’m asking where a bumbling novice like me can learn more about where to start when it comes to programming.

  • @SJ0@lemmy.fbxl.netEnglish
    13•1 year ago

    Then the grizzled old curmudgeon bellied up to the bar and said “ONE WORD. BASIC.”

    And everyone else in the room pointed and laughed. But I still like it. shut up.

    • @OldFartPhil@lemm.eeEnglish
      7•1 year ago

      I’m part of the cohort of programmers that learned to code in pre-dotnet VB. VB6 (my precious) was the most popular programming language for years.

        • @SJ0@lemmy.fbxl.netEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Extended color basic on the COCO was amazing, and so when I moved to a Commodore 64 I was like “What the hell is this? Where’s all the graphics commands?”

    • @OldFartPhil@lemm.eeEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      I’m part of the cohort of programmers that learned to code in pre-dotnet VB. VB6 (my precious) was the most popular programming language for years.