[ELECTRON] Beginners Programming

[Natalie Duncan]

Could I maybe suggest a Facebook Group for these types of discussions to relieve the amount of emails?? It would also be a great opportunity to allow people to post for any help/problem solving etc.

Just a thought. 


On 2013-04-19, at 12:35 PM, JOHN COUZIN 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
> 
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> From: DAVID BALL <dave.ball2 at virgin.net>
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> 
> 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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