On Tue, Aug 6, 2024 at 2:34 PM Dan Purgert via Dng <dng@???>
wrote:

> On Aug 06, 2024, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 6, 2024 at 10:06 AM Dan Purgert via Dng <dng@???>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Aug 04, 2024, Steve Litt wrote:
> > > > o1bigtenor via Dng said on Sat, 3 Aug 2024 12:30:27 -0500
> > > >
> > > > >Greetings
> > > > >
> > > > >Looking at ESP8266 and wanting to program it using micropython
> (really
> > > > >don't want to have to learn C++ (not enough hours in the day as it
> > > > >is!!)).
> > > >
> > > > C++ sucks, but can't you do it in just plain C?
> > >
> > > Most people would use c++ by virtue of approaching this with the
> > > "Arduino" ecosystem. As with most any other microcontroller though;
> one
> > > can use C (or assembly) if they so choose (but it might include other
> > > hurdles in the toolchain / environment).
> > >
> >
> >
> > Well - - - I'm pretty much a programming noob and I'd rather learn 1 (!!)
> > ecosystem well than dabble around in a few and use only cut and paste for
> > programming otherwise c would be the way to go. Had a long time mentor,
> > now deceased, suggest that python was a pretty good option for learning
> > programming - - that was although he himself prefered pearl.
>
> OK, what's the actual goal of your "learning programming"? Is it
> specifically so you can program microcontrollers? General problem
> solving? Something else?
>
>
Ja - - - its more 'something else'.
Commercially available systems are right bloody expensive and for even the
simple
ones 3 figures is called 'reasonable' - - - garbage - - - its a temperature
sensor, a
humidity sensor, a 0-10V module and a microprocessor and the programming is
rather crude so when I saw the prices I went - - - there must be another
way of doing
this.

I have already endured much hair pulling (my predominantly bald pate is not
so happy
with that) but I finally have an environment where all the tools for
micropython are
available - - both for programing and install although getting the
installation tools
working has been something like a 10 hour dig around and then humble
through
poorly written docs - - - dunno if I have enough noted so that I could
produce better
but maybe I should try!!!

So its programming to get things done and me being properly quite anal of
course
it becomes not simple very very quickly - - - but it is keeping the thinker
working
- - grin!!!!!!!!!!

Regards