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Re: Starting programming...

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Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle View Post
Perhaps a year ago, someone mentioned the Project Euler site. This is similar to how I learned to program. Pick a language and take a crack at a few problems. Once you have your bearings, may I suggest trying one of the other languages, and perhaps even the third. Given a problem to apply your programming to, try out different tools -- video tutorials, written tutorials, examples, reference books, etc.

If math isn't your thing, obviously there are other good ways to learn how to program, but coming to grips with what is commonly referred to as scientific programming, or numerical programming is, I think, similar to much of what you'll see on the robot. Of course the robot will introduce you to many other concepts as well, but if you are good at the numerical stuff, I think you'll find the rest easy to pick up.

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This sounds like a great site. Thanks a lot! It seems like a lot of the programming on the robot is numerical-related, I can see that could help me a lot.

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Which is easily less than 1% of what there is to know about C++. Besides most of what you know now will transfer over to Java as C,C++, and Java share similar syntax. I'm just telling you from experience that C++ can quickly become a world of hurt.
I don't understand what you mean by that.
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