I apologize in advance if this is the wrong forum, please redirect if necessary.
I would like to learn how to program some scripts, but don't know how to get started. It has been ~15 years since I last programmed in Fortran and C++, and I've never done any script generation (aside from possibly debugging an Excel Macro way back when, if that counts). Over the last year at work I've done some simple programming in Industrial Control System applications (Function Block and Structured Text, debugged Ladder Logic, for those who may know what those are), but I won't claim to be a really proficient programmer.
I'd like to know what tools I'd need to get started, in the hopes I can help out with some future scripts for PI (I've already got a few ideas that I see other folks are working on, but I'd like to learn too).
Do I need a compiler and/or linker application?
Other tools (aside from text editor)?
Thanks,
Jim
I would like to learn how to program some scripts, but don't know how to get started. It has been ~15 years since I last programmed in Fortran and C++, and I've never done any script generation (aside from possibly debugging an Excel Macro way back when, if that counts). Over the last year at work I've done some simple programming in Industrial Control System applications (Function Block and Structured Text, debugged Ladder Logic, for those who may know what those are), but I won't claim to be a really proficient programmer.
I'd like to know what tools I'd need to get started, in the hopes I can help out with some future scripts for PI (I've already got a few ideas that I see other folks are working on, but I'd like to learn too).
Do I need a compiler and/or linker application?
Other tools (aside from text editor)?
Thanks,
Jim