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Author Author: bluescreen
Date Created: 13 Feb 2014 4:26 AM Date Created
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What programming language should EE's learn first?

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johnbeetem over 10 years ago +2

Oh goodie, language wars! Personally, I think C and C++ are terrible first programming languages. C is a great language for writing compact code that maps directly into machine language, but for teaching…
Former Member over 10 years ago +2

Ruby! It's python's beautiful little sister.
Former Member over 10 years ago +2

Very important distinction here is that the question specified "EE", not "CS"! EEs should learn C first, but not bother with C++ so much. C compilers are available for every processor made and by learning…

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cncdan over 10 years ago

there needs to be a common language I am learning the arduino one what ever it is called and Lua.
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cncdan over 10 years ago

there needs to be a common language I am learning the arduino one what ever it is called and Lua.
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michaelkellett over 10 years ago in reply to cncdan

A common language is no more practical than a common tool - sometimes you need a hammer and sometimes you need a chainsaw. I've just bought an instrument (Keithly 2 channel source meter 2614B) which uses Lua as it's command and embedded scripting language and that seems to work really well. If I want to write embedded code for a small micro-controller I would use C. Swapping the two over wouldn't work very well at all. I think we're always going to have lots of computer languages.

Just for interest - why did you pick Lua ?

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cncdan over 10 years ago in reply to michaelkellett

Its what's used for Mach4 cnc
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