for me it was VB at home, turbo pascal at school, TI-86 basic for "cheating" at school (is it really cheating if you had to learn the math to write the program?). Then HTML+JS for websites, python and C++ for college, PHP for internship, C because I wanted to learn how PHP worked, and then onwards into real life.
(Actually it was back to the beginning as my first job was VB6+PL/PGSQL)
Oh, man. I had my TI-85 programmed to the moon. Built my own serial link cable.
Still remember my chemistry teacher let me use a stoichiometry app I coded during exams and welcomed any other students to do the same if they felt it was unfair. There wasn’t an App Store to download it from.
Really taught me the concept of mastering first principles.
No matter how much experience one gets it’s always great to get to be a beginner at something
(Actually it was back to the beginning as my first job was VB6+PL/PGSQL)