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Permalink Reply by Tom Kent on December 8, 2009 at 6:14am

Are you new to programming or just C++?

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Permalink Reply by john higgs on December 8, 2009 at 7:41am

Yes I'm very new but looking to learn.

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Permalink Reply by Tom Kent on December 8, 2009 at 8:32am

First, if you don't have previous programming experience, I would recommend that you not jump in and start with Arduino. I know that it would have quickly confused me if I had tried to start with that. Rather, I'd recommend spending some time working on the basics.

As far as C++ there are a LOT of tutorials out there. I don't have any particular that is my favorite or anything, but here are a couple that I looked through and seem to hit all the important points:

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/
(cplusplus.com is also an AWESOME reference to bookmark for C/C++ headers)

http://www.learncpp.com/


Another thing to think about, if you're new to programming, C/C++ is definitely not the easiest language to learn. As far as just learning how to program there's a lot of debate over what is easiest/best, but I would personally strongly recommend a beginner learn Python before trying to learn anything else. Its simple to pickup, and very powerful, you'll be able to do a lot of different things with it (but not edit Arduino code).

http://openbookproject.net//thinkCSpy/
This is really a good introduction to programming concepts, that just happens to be written in python. I haven't gone through all of it, but it looks really great. This is where I'd recommend that you start.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Non-Programmer%27s_Tutorial_for_Python...
Another good example, with lots of examples and practice problems to walk through.

http://docs.python.org/tutorial/
The official python tutorial, not as good on the basics, but still very good.

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Permalink Reply by Dustin Romero on December 31, 2009 at 6:52pm

I am also new to C/C++. I have done some coding in basic for the basic stamp. And I have just ordered an aduino mega and an ardupilot. Did I jump the gun? I design and build underwater robotics for a ROV company. I'm head or research and developement so I understand serial comunication but our systems are programmed by someone else. I understand complex programming to an extent. Any suggestions?

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