[ELECTRON] Beginners Programming
DAVID BALL
dave.ball2 at virgin.net
Fri Apr 19 10:54:48 UTC 2013
Blair I don't care which language people want to learn, the group can
cover them all as far as concerned as I've said before all the c
languages are part of the same family tree.
i was thinking for the first group to cover some main area's of
programming.
Such as variables, types, classes, functions, procedures, etc and perhaps
look at the differences and similarities between the languages people
want to learn.
i think it would be good to have some actual problem to solve, someone
mentioned yathzee which maybe a bit complicated for the first meeting but
perhaps we can use it as a starting point.
by that i mean we could look at identifying what would be need to write a
yathzee type game perhaps starting out with a craps. although someone
would need to have the rules for theses games
as we would need to cover quite a few of the areas to create a simple
dice game.
regards
dave
On 19 April 2013 10:24, Blair Thompson <mail at justblair.co.uk> wrote:
> Yep... Got me, I was sloppy with my language. A million apologies, I have
> let everyone down.
>
> I don't know the difference between the languages sufficiently to know
> which is best. Probably best to go with C then if anything. But don't
> choose on my requests. If PHP is more useful to people then go with that
>
> Blair
>
> Martin McGrath <mcgrath.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >On 18 April 2013 23:36, Blair Thompson <mail at justblair.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> Depends on your choice of microprocessor. Arduino is where my
> >experience
> >> lies and it's c++ based as well as being about the most popular
> >platform
> >> for beginners.
> >>
> >> Anything I have seen for the msp430 has been in c++ as well. Though I
> >know
> >> you can develop in c with it.
> >>
> >> But I am no expert in these matters. The only pic stuff I ever did
> >was in
> >> a language called Jal that never really took off.
> >>
> >
> >Ah Microprocessor vs Microcontroller.
> >
> >IIRC the Arduino core libs are written in C and C++, most of the
> >application code I've seen is written in C.
> >
> >Plain old C has many advantages, less bloat, less runtime overheads etc
> >which I'd have thought would have made it more appealing that C++ for
> >the
> >Arduino, given the fairly limited resources.
> >
> >Cheers
> >
> >Martin
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