[ELECTRON] Beginners Programming

[DAVID BALL]

i don't do facebook  now before i  get hammered as some sort of luddite, i
know i'd get addicted  to it as i  have  been in the past to predecessors
of face book. so as a point of  principal i avoid  such things.



On 19 April 2013 14:15, Natalie Duncan <06duncan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > 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
> >>>
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