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Re: Desperate need of help

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Originally Posted by Loubear View Post
Just to put my 2 cents in, all you really need is mplab and possibly labview for testing. Labvew is included with the kit of parts, and since you already know Java, just imagine C as Java w/o access levels, classes, and all that object oriented stuff... and has pointers. Java was made so that C/C++ programmers could pick up on it easily, so it works both ways.


Definitely watch your variable types, though. I'm a Java programmer, and the most confusing thing about C for me was when I found out that you need to cast unsigned variables to signed types before making them negative. I could never figure out why the computer would do these crazy things until I added a printf and found that the variables were wrapping around to the highest value.