[Bassetlug mailing] Programming talk

[Danny Roberts]

Hi,

First of all I'm glad you enjoyed the presentation. I also hope everyone
else got something out of it, personally speaking I enjoyed giving the
presentation. I would encourage anyone who's interest was piqued  to
follow it up as programming can be a very rewarding experience
especially when you see the end product.

Making GUI's for command line tools can be a very interesting and
rewarding project in my opinion as it makes your average user much more
happy. By average user I mean someone who would be terrified of using
the Command Line, so for these people GUI's make these great CLI tools
accessible and easy to use. As for Image Magick, I checked their website
today and there is around 17 GUI's available of it all written in
different languages. So for me I think my next project will be the AWN
Applets I just posted to the mailing list about (any Applet request?).

The LED Cube and learning IO programming sounds like a great Summer
Project for me personally, maybe that's something we can all work on
together (if anyone else is interested that is?).

Eventually I would like to move from that sort of things into Robotics
which is something I've also found fascinating, Daleks anyone?

Regards
Danny

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On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 16:08 +0100, mj.wells at ischus.co.uk wrote:

> Thanks Danny for the talk on how to write simple programs using 
> MonoDevelop. I found it to be most stimulating.
> 
> It is very useful to know that programs are so easy to write and that C# 
> is very easy. I was impressed that we had a simple text editor up and 
> running  during the talk in just a few lines of code.
> 
> I am sure that I will go on to write a few of those quick tools that can 
> be so useful when we find something that an application does not provide.
> 
> Just thought, but how easy would it be to write a GUI wrapper around 
> ImageMagick's command line tools? It looks like this would be a simple 
> and very useful task.
> 
> Maybe a later talk could be for you to show us how to do some control; 
> like flashing an LED or something? How about:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SO1J1kP3YQ
> 
> there are many other videos of this sort of thing in the list on the 
> right and googling the words: LED cube - brings up more.
> 
> You may find this interesting:
> 
> http://www.showmewithvideo.com/v/371,the-base-to-make-a-pocket-led-cube.html
> 
> Could that be the start of a project to build and control a robot?
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
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