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Spammerman
10-04-2007, 02:42 AM
Hello all. Ok, so I'm in Engineering at school. Eventually, Ill have to learn to program for the robots and other things, does anyone know any good books I should look for or websites I could try?

Fonzie
10-04-2007, 02:48 AM
Sounds like a Study Hall topic.

Levian
10-04-2007, 03:03 AM
yeah, moved.

o_O
10-06-2007, 02:56 PM
What sort of robots will you be using? You'll probably want to design your own high-level language for more complex robots, but for simple ones you should learn something already relatively high-level like Python or Ruby (Ruby is about 10000000 times better than other high-level languages).

For something more rigorous, I would choose C++ or Java, or another similar object oriented language. Of the two, C++ is harder to learn, but faster and more efficient. It'll allow you to include assembly language in your code for extra efficiency. Java is a good entry level language for this generation.