Starting programming...

[davidthefat]

Originally Posted by kenavt

Luckily, I managed to grab a copy of LabVIEW for my laptop at home. You probably talked to another one of our programmers, who knew C++ and Java already if I remember correctly, so he just spent the '09 season messing around with LabVIEW and picking it up.

I'll definitely try trying to figure out code, probably from the examples included with LabVIEW (I can't have access to the competition code we used right away).

The real thing I want to do is learn more about "real" programming - CLI - than transition over to LabVIEW. I also have a question: Would it be better to learn C first, or C++? C is a good basic language, I hear, but C++ is more commonly used.

Eh, C is more for Robots since more robots are programmed in C, but I will have to say the mind set is different. C is procedural and C++ is object oriented. I started with C++ like I previously mentioned, its just C with more (hence the ++) so if you learn C++, you basically learn C plus more, but not really, the mind set is different. But surprisingly, when I first started, I started programming procedurally more than object oriented. Eh IDK you might want to start with C++.



edit: LOL at what Chris said, thats why I have an F in my AP Computer Class, it was so easy that I just slacked off... BAD IDEA... well good thing there is a project thats 70% of my grade, and its about the autonomous robot challenge