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Re: NQC programming guide
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 7 Dec 2006 08:08:49 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, steve <sjbaker1@airmail.net> wrote:
> linmix wrote:
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> > As for which programming language to learn, I'm sure C (or C related) is
> > a perfect choice. For one, as you say NQC is C based. Secondly, learning
> > C should give me a better insight in some of the things that happen in
> > my Linux machine. Java sounds interesting because it is used for quite a
> > few cross platform applications and because of lejos, but let's take
> > this a step at a time. Once I know my way around NQC I can always decide
> > to learn something else.
>
> Yep - that's definitely the case.
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> Once you have learned one C-like language (and I'd describe JAVA, NQC,
> C++, Python, Pascal, JavaScript, PHP as 'sufficiently C-like') - it's
> quite easy to learn another. I needed to learn PHP for a project I
> had planned - I bought the "Sam's PHP in 24 hours" book and picked
> up enough PHP in an hour to write a 3,000 line web-based application
> without needing to refer back to the book even once!
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> The most important thing about learning to program is that you have
> to write LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS of programs! It doesn't matter what
> they do - drive robots, balance your checkbook, play Tetris...just
> so long as you write lots and lots of code in whatever language you
> choose. There is absolutely no substitute for practice.
>
> I've been programming since the mid 1970's - and still, when I look
> back on a program I wrote a couple of years ago, I say to myself "Wow!
> I was really that bad back then! I can do SO much better now!".
This is probably the best advice I have *ever* seen given to someone who is just
starting out trying to learn how to program.
Spotlighted!!
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| Interesting! I never knew all those languages were from the same 'family'. Being a 'natural' language teacher I can see how knowing one helps to learn another related one, and I also appreciate the need for practice, practice and more practice. So (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NQC programming guide
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| (...) Yep - that's definitely the case. Once you have learned one C-like language (and I'd describe JAVA, NQC, C++, Python, Pascal, JavaScript, PHP as 'sufficiently C-like') - it's quite easy to learn another. I needed to learn PHP for a project I (...) (20 years ago, 7-Nov-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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