College x Programing

[Fenris Wolf]

Hello!

I came to realize that I'm really interested in Mecatronic. Here, the course that represents mecatronic is "Engineering of Control and Industrial Automation". But, there is a great part in this course that is about programming .

I wanted to know if it is really a problem to begin understanding C/C++ (two of the programming languages).

What abou Assembly (is it like this?)?

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[Lemon[H]ead]

I'm not quite sure if I understand rightly but i'll take a stab. You're asking if it's not too hard to learn enough C or C++ (or Assembly) to be useful for your Mechatronics course?

IMO you could quite easily learn C, it is quite simple.
here is a tutorial I quickly googled and found (chose it as it has a portuguese translation, and it may be easier for you to learn in your native language).

To compile the source code (turn the text of your program into something which the computer can execute) you need a compiler. If you're on GNU\Linux then you should have gcc installed. If you're on windows here is a link to a free compiler you can use.


Hope this helps.

- sean

[squeech]

I would recommend understanding the basics of C/C++. As lemonhead mentioned, they are very easy to learn and begin writing procedural programs (which is probably all you will need to understand control systems). You probably don't have to delve into classes at all, just get a feel for how I/O works, looping, branching, that wort of thing.

Personally, I would stay away from Assembly. IMO, it's quite complicated and a bit of a pain. Although, it may correlate to automation programming more than C would...if you're willing to spend the time.