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Robot Programming Languages?

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the_future over 10 years ago

Trying to figure out the best languages to learn if I want to build a robot from scratch can you help please?

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    screamingtiger over 10 years ago +2
    My favorite setup is a Raspberry Pi 2 Raspberry Pi 2 coupled with a ChipKit Pi ChipKit Pi for servos, all using C. That gives you a lot of capabilities including SD card storage, multiple languages, cameras…
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    screamingtiger over 10 years ago +1
    Well it depends on how you define "best". Further you must decide on some hardware first. This is because some hardware only has certain languages supported. You might want to use BASIC but it may be hard…
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    the_future over 10 years ago +1
    Thanks Joey Thomspon and when i say best i am looking for the best languages and hardware for a humanoid robot
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    0 screamingtiger over 10 years ago

    Well it depends on how you define "best".  Further you must decide on some hardware first.  This is because some hardware only has certain languages supported.  You might want to use BASIC but it may be hard to find that an AVR.

     

    If you are a beginner, Arduino is the best way to start IMO. But it uses C.  It has lots of pre built libraries and tons of examples.

     

    it seems most hardware supports C/C++ so that is not a bad place to start.  BUT if you are new to programming it may be a bit daunting.

    In that cause you could use a raspberry PI and then you have m any languages available including Python.  You can learn something easy then move up.  But controlling servos with the Pi may be a challenge.

     

    If you don't currently know any languages, I would start by learning a high level scripting language such as Python, and find hardware that supports it.  If you are up to it, you cant go wrong learning C.

     

    EDIT:  There is hardware that also supports C# and VB.NET which are good places to start learning as well.  Netduino I believe is still around.

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    0 screamingtiger over 10 years ago

    Well it depends on how you define "best".  Further you must decide on some hardware first.  This is because some hardware only has certain languages supported.  You might want to use BASIC but it may be hard to find that an AVR.

     

    If you are a beginner, Arduino is the best way to start IMO. But it uses C.  It has lots of pre built libraries and tons of examples.

     

    it seems most hardware supports C/C++ so that is not a bad place to start.  BUT if you are new to programming it may be a bit daunting.

    In that cause you could use a raspberry PI and then you have m any languages available including Python.  You can learn something easy then move up.  But controlling servos with the Pi may be a challenge.

     

    If you don't currently know any languages, I would start by learning a high level scripting language such as Python, and find hardware that supports it.  If you are up to it, you cant go wrong learning C.

     

    EDIT:  There is hardware that also supports C# and VB.NET which are good places to start learning as well.  Netduino I believe is still around.

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