New to programming need some help

[Zorro101]

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]

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]

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

[brennonbrimhall]

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

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]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by yash101

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]

Originally Posted by z_beeblebrox

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]

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[dcarr]

Originally Posted by Ether

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Can't beat K&R