[ELECTRON] Beginners Programming
DAVID BALL
dave.ball2 at virgin.net
Fri Apr 19 12:08:16 UTC 2013
thanks john, what time is suitable for those interested. as i said I'm off
this Monday so was wondering if we could have a couple of hours then. i did
notice that the room is booked already at 7-9 so i was thinking perhaps
before that if it was suitable to people starting whenever.
i was planning of running it from the view point that no one has any
experience at all. and i'm happy to cover both PHP and a C language if
that is useful. i know it can seem quite daunting to begin with but my
plan is to work through some simple examples. getting you used to the basic
principal, getting you to tackle some simple problems and building on the
knowledge and previous work to help you improve your understanding.
so in the first session i would think the we should be able to cover data
types, variables, functions, classes, procedures, objects, libraries, and
then use them to look at creating a very simple text based dice game.
we could then over time look at how we would expand this simple game. i
find its always good to set a problem and see what issue arise and then
tackle the issue and use any issues people have in the wrap up of the
lesson so everyone can benefit from the improved understanding resolving
the issue has given.
regards
dave
On 19 April 2013 12:35, JOHN COUZIN <john.c.at95 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Bob and I were the ones who suggested some sort of course in very basic
> coding, and I admit that my knowledge in this field is ziltch. The more I
> read the flowing emails, the more confused I get. What I personally was
> looking for was some very basic knowledge in coding that would help we
> further develop my wordpress site and my mediawiki site. What that
> knowledge would be I'm not at all sure. so for me it would be the very
> basics. I would leave it up to the "teacher" to lay out the course along
> the lines that he thinks are best suit to that purpose, and we could
> concentrate on setting a time. John
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: DAVID BALL <dave.ball2 at virgin.net>
> To: Discussion list for the Electron Club <members at electronclub.org>
> Sent: Friday, 19 April 2013, 11:54
> Subject: Re: [ELECTRON] Beginners Programming
>
>
> 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
> > >-------------- next part --------------
> > >An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> > >URL:
> > ><
> >
> http://www.electronclub.org/pipermail/members/attachments/20130419/e1fd542c/attachment.html
> > >
> > >_______________________________________________
> > >Electron Club Members mailing list
> > >members at electronclub.org
> > >http://www.electronclub.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/members
> >
> > --
> > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
> > -------------- next part --------------
> > An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> > URL: <
> >
> http://www.electronclub.org/pipermail/members/attachments/20130419/4beb5574/attachment.html
> > >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Electron Club Members mailing list
> > members at electronclub.org
> > http://www.electronclub.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/members
> >
> -------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL: <
> http://www.electronclub.org/pipermail/members/attachments/20130419/4fe6fc5a/attachment.html
> >
> _______________________________________________
> Electron Club Members mailing list
> members at electronclub.org
> http://www.electronclub.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/members
> -------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL: <
> http://www.electronclub.org/pipermail/members/attachments/20130419/d4120f62/attachment.html
> >
> _______________________________________________
> Electron Club Members mailing list
> members at electronclub.org
> http://www.electronclub.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/members
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.electronclub.org/pipermail/members/attachments/20130419/9cd4b199/attachment.html>
More information about the members
mailing list