Python and the Pi
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Bought a Raspberry Pi and everything I can find about programming it calls for Python. So thinking, “How hard can learning a scripting language be?” I dove head long into it. Most of the code examples I have found are poop. Indenting makes me long for curly braces. Then there’s 2.7.9 and 3.4.3, where 3.4.3 is not backwardly compatible. Then there is the worship of the great Guido. BTW, seems that the Linux kiddies are using it in a large way. Bottom line is if I’m going to get anything out of the Pi, it’s just hack it and go. Sigh() { Response.write(“What do you mean unexpected indent!”); }
Pi running Linux and Linux can have mono and mono can run any .NET language you choose... http://logicalgenetics.com/raspberry-pi-and-mono-hello-world/[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Earl Owens wrote:
How hard can learning a scripting language be?
Clearly, you've never done any hardcore JavaScript development.
Jeremy Falcon
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Bought a Raspberry Pi and everything I can find about programming it calls for Python. So thinking, “How hard can learning a scripting language be?” I dove head long into it. Most of the code examples I have found are poop. Indenting makes me long for curly braces. Then there’s 2.7.9 and 3.4.3, where 3.4.3 is not backwardly compatible. Then there is the worship of the great Guido. BTW, seems that the Linux kiddies are using it in a large way. Bottom line is if I’m going to get anything out of the Pi, it’s just hack it and go. Sigh() { Response.write(“What do you mean unexpected indent!”); }
For what it's worth, you can also program it with C/C++. I use the same IDE (Code::Blocks) in Windows, x64 Linux and on the RasPi. In combination with wxWidgets and a wx design tool of your choice it makes for nice suite. The only thing I'm missing is a socket library on the old version of Raspian that I have.
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