<div dir="auto">Thanks Jay, I actually installed a VirtualBox with Ubuntu tonight and started learning C. It is a lot like C++. Hopefully I can pick up on the basics of it pretty quick. At the moment I have been a little confused about the * and ** next to variable names. Also the & variable names. I found some resources about it and realize they indicate pointers or something. I'm just not following the reason to have a pointer instead of the variable. I'm sure it will become clear as I continue to learn. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 3, 2020, 3:11 PM Jay Schwichtenberg <<a href="mailto:jschwich53@comcast.net">jschwich53@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I was an embedded/bare metal HW/SW engineer and will say working
with embedded ARM uCs C.</p>
<p>C++ usually complicates things and is overkill for run of the
mill embedded stuff. Don't know if it is still true but at one
time the C++ libraries had a lot of bloat and took up a lot of
storage. I've also found C++ harder to debug when people start
overloading and abstracting things.<br>
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<p>If you do need to run object based code you can in C. Take all
the data for an object and put it into a structure and then pass a
pointer to the structure around through the code. This is more or
less the equivalent of a 'this structure' that objects have in
C++. The data is isolated to a single object and just use a new
structure with different data for another object. Also follow C++
and make you own constructors and destructors to setup and
shutdown things.</p>
<p>Jay S.<br>
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<div>On 12/2/2020 6:45 PM, Shawn Rakestraw
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<div>Please don't go into extreme detail (unless you really want
to). I ask too many simple questions and I feel bad that
everyone spends great amounts of time with it.</div>
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<div>I am thinking about programming ARM chips like the STM32
for something like Braids. I know that I will not be making my
own Braids module anytime soon, but I would like to start
thinking about the language I need to learn. I know the most
about C++. I also realize that my question may be better asked
as what libraries should I load / study up on.</div>
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<div>Thanks guys/gals<br>
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