spin

chip roberts

I am a Pbasic programmer an was interested in the propeller chip. I purchased the propeller starter kit and have been looking over the propeller articles in Nut and Volts volume 7. I have been struggling to understand what is going on. Mr. Williams articles have only managed to confuse me. Mr. Williams implies that to use spin, the programmer should have experience in other languages such as C or Pascal. Could someone recommend what language I should learn before I attempt to learn spin? Is there a better reference book for learning spin?

Thank you,
chip roberts

Bobb Fwed

If your only programming experience is in basic, the syntax and operations are much different. But I don't see how Spin would be any more difficult to learn than any other high-level language. Knowing other languages would help for understanding memory management, stacks, arrays, etc. but I feel you could learn Spin quicker than you could learn C or Pascal. And of course, if your intention is to use the propeller, learning one language just to help you learn another, would slow you down a bit.
Not to mention, there are lots of helpful people here on the forums that can help you through headaches and there are plenty of tutorials for Spin and PASM.

RiJoRi

I got the Prop. SK a couple of months ago. I found the included "Propeller Manual" to be sufficient to get going. Just work your way through the examples given, and you'll go from

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--Rich