<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>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.<br>
</div> i was thinking for the first group to cover some main area's of programming.<br></div> Such as variables, types, classes, functions, procedures, etc and perhaps look at the differences and similarities between the languages people want to learn.<br>
</div> 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.<br></div>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<br>
</div>as we would need to cover quite a few of the areas to create a simple dice game.<br></div> regards<br></div>dave<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 April 2013 10:24, Blair Thompson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail@justblair.co.uk" target="_blank">mail@justblair.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yep... Got me, I was sloppy with my language. A million apologies, I have let everyone down.<br>
<br>
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<br>
<br>
Blair<br>
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Martin McGrath <<a href="mailto:mcgrath.martin@gmail.com">mcgrath.martin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
>On 18 April 2013 23:36, Blair Thompson <<a href="mailto:mail@justblair.co.uk">mail@justblair.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Depends on your choice of microprocessor. Arduino is where my<br>
>experience<br>
>> lies and it's c++ based as well as being about the most popular<br>
>platform<br>
>> for beginners.<br>
>><br>
>> Anything I have seen for the msp430 has been in c++ as well. Though I<br>
>know<br>
>> you can develop in c with it.<br>
>><br>
>> But I am no expert in these matters. The only pic stuff I ever did<br>
>was in<br>
>> a language called Jal that never really took off.<br>
>><br>
><br>
>Ah Microprocessor vs Microcontroller.<br>
><br>
>IIRC the Arduino core libs are written in C and C++, most of the<br>
>application code I've seen is written in C.<br>
><br>
>Plain old C has many advantages, less bloat, less runtime overheads etc<br>
>which I'd have thought would have made it more appealing that C++ for<br>
>the<br>
>Arduino, given the fairly limited resources.<br>
><br>
>Cheers<br>
><br>
>Martin<br>
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