<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456701041590_6091" dir="ltr">Thank you,Tom. C and Python are the languages I am focusing on and will continue to focus on. Yes, I do have a few Pis here as well. :)<br></div><div><span></span></div><div> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456701041590_6076" class="signature"><div><font size="2">Sincerely, <br> </font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456701041590_6075"><font size="2">Chris Juried <br>Audio Engineering Society (AES) <var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var>Member <br>InfoComm-Recognized AV Technologist</font><span class="postbody"><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.juriedengineering.com/">http://www.JuriedEngineering.com</a> (Juried Engineering, LLC.)</span><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456701041590_6135" size="3"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456701041590_6134" size="2"><br><br><br>This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any distribution or copying of this email, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify me at (754) 300-9972 and permanently delete the original and any copy of any e-mail and any printout thereof.</font></font><br></div></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Neil Johnson <neil.johnson71@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Tom Wiltshire <tom@electricdruid.net> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Chris Juried <cjuried@yahoo.com>; Synth-diy DIY <synth-diy@dropmix.xs4all.nl><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, February 28, 2016 5:34 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [sdiy] Programming Language of choice<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Chris Juried wrote:<br clear="none">(from a Yahoo account that google thinks is spam due to: "It has a<br clear="none">from address in yahoo.com but has failed yahoo.com's required tests<br clear="none">for authentication.")<div class="yqt8769775841" id="yqtfd67828"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">>>I was wondering what the groups' consensus is on the most prominent programming language for a beginner in the world of MCUs.</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Depends what you mean by "MCU". If you're on a Raspberry Pi I would<br clear="none">say start with Python - great scripting lanuage, lots of libraries,<br clear="none">lots of online resources to learn from.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If you're closer to the metal and mean microcontrollers like AVRs or<br clear="none">the smaller ARM machines (I'm talking single-core running up to a<br clear="none">couple hundred MHz, lots of peripherals, running either no OS or an<br clear="none">RTOS), then C is the only language you need to learn.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Some might tempt you with C++ and the lie that "it's like C, but<br clear="none">better", in the same sense that an apple is "like a woolly mammoth,<br clear="none">but better". It might look a bit like C if you squint, but that's<br clear="none">just syntactic sugar to lure you into their psychedelic world of<br clear="none">weirdness.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Neil<br clear="none">--<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.njohnson.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.njohnson.co.uk</a><div class="yqt8769775841" id="yqtfd79836"><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>