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Re: Starting programming...

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Originally Posted by davidthefat View Post
I have a suggestion, go learn C++ from books, thats how I did it, and I ended up fine. May be they don't teach you how to program, but they teach you the basics. You just need to practice, practice programming text based games or something. Robots are different, I had trouble in the beginning with robots, since its different mindset, but just learn to program. Programming is how you think, not code on the computer screen. If you understand what I mean. The syntax is not the programming part, but the logic.
That's what I've heard a lot from our main programmer - it's about the logic behind it. My impression from using LabVIEW is that it is more about the logic then the syntax, while CLI languages you have to focus more on the syntax and the logic is more hidden. I've been looking at a couple of C++ books at my local library - that was what I thought I'd start out with first. Then, I'd like to mess around with a fun little cRIO control-system bot the team is building to really get the logic.
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