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Zorro101

17-10-2013 00:25

New to programming need some help

Hello there fellow programmers!
I am new to this forum and to programing robots.
We are in the Vex competition in our High School club and we will be entering the FIRST :)
We are currently doing VeX as a start and I am the programmer
I was wondering if anyone out there could send me some good tutorials or pages that could help me use RobotC (program we use to code) because I am new

Regards,
Zorro101

z_beeblebrox

17-10-2013 18:11

Re: New to programming need some help

Take a look at the Dennis Ritchie/ Brian Kernighan book The C Programming Language for general C reference (RobotC's very much like C.) and the help on the RobotC website.

DonRotolo

17-10-2013 21:28

Re: New to programming need some help

The RobotC website is http://www.robotc.net/
They have a lot of good info there

brennonbrimhall

17-10-2013 21:51

Re: New to programming need some help

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Originally Posted by DonRotolo (Post 1297091)

The RobotC website is http://www.robotc.net/
They have a lot of good info there

I've found their wiki to be extremely helpful. They have different portals and articles for PIC, CORTEX, and IQ.

RyanCahoon

17-10-2013 22:16

Re: New to programming need some help

There's also a full set of video lessons and tutorial activities for ROBOTC at http://www.education.rec.ri.cmu.edu/...robotc_cortex/

yash101

19-10-2013 01:17

Re: New to programming need some help

Welcome to the forum. In our engineering program, we did use vex with robotC. It, indeed, is a good place to start because it will teach the basics of C programming. Also, I think it is actually based of something like c10. RobotC, I think, is just a library of commands and an interface to make it easier for beginners. Also, another plus is that it is well-documented.

RyanCahoon

20-10-2013 11:00

Re: New to programming need some help

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Originally Posted by yash101 (Post 1297305)

RobotC, I think, is just a library of commands and an interface

ROBOTC programs also run inside a virtual machine on the target microcontroller, which makes it basically impossible to accidentally brick the uC, and also gives you an easy real-time debugger and intrinsic multitasking, among other features. Running in a virtual machine also means you can run the same program on a desktop computer with Robot Virtual Worlds.

tcjinaz

20-10-2013 23:52

Re: New to programming need some help

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Originally Posted by z_beeblebrox (Post 1297044)

Take a look at the Dennis Ritchie/ Brian Kernighan book The C Programming Language for general C reference (RobotC's very much like C.) and the help on the RobotC website.

Wow, toss'em into the WayBack machine :)

BTW, I concur.

Tim
(I have a very early edition of the book cited)

Ether

21-10-2013 00:25

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dcarr

21-10-2013 04:34

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Can't beat K&R :)

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