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[Dev-C++] Personal help question involving C/C++ and engineering.

[Richard P. E. <ev...@ma...>]

This is an open question to all members concerning C/C++ program 
applications.  I hope you will freely offer your advice.

I am an engineer who, for the first time in his life, is suddenly 
unemployed.  All the job ads include working knowledge of C/C++ and/or 
Visual Basic in addition to all the other prerequisites, such as MMI 
programming and PLC programming.  I have years of experience in the latter 
but no working experience in C/C++ or Visual Basic.  I did take a formal 
course at the local community college in beginning C/C++ about three years 
ago because I forsaw the future need.  Non of my past positions have 
required its use so I have no working experience.  I also have no idea of 
how it is being used in engineering applications for machine control.  I 
have worked in Instrumentation and Controls and also worked on the edge of 
Robotic applications.  The robotics always involved interfacing to the 
system through the PLC I was using for the other controls that made up the 
application.  My questions are as follows:

	1. What is a typical control application where a C/C++ program would be used?
	2. Could you give me an example of such a problem?
	3. Could you give me an example of how such problem was solved using a C/C++
	    program?
	4. I'm assuming that a card is used to affect a real world interface to a 
computer and
	    the program interfaces the computer to the card or some other 
peripheral equipment?
	5. It's a lot to ask, but I need to know how to direct my programming and 
learning efforts
	    to directly address my lack of real experience.

I hope some one will take the time and patience to give me some direction 
in my efforts.  I know you have been generous with your help in my 
programming efforts in the past and the help has been right on the 
money.  Thank you.

RE: [Dev-C++] Personal help question involving C/C++ and engineering.

[Ioannis V. <no...@ya...>]

I do not know about control devices or PLCs but i know that C/C++ are the
ideal general programming languages used for programming the biggest
mainframes to the smallest embedded devices. If you want to choose between C
& C++ i suggest you learn C++ and begin  learning directly C++ and not C
first (as i unfortunately did).

Also take a look at:

http://www.research.att.com/~bs/esc99.html ,

at http://www.research.att.com/~bs/

and make a search on the web for the data you are looking for.


Best regards,
Ioannis

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev...@li...
> [mailto:dev...@li...]On Behalf Of
> Richard P. Evans
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 2:22 AM
> To: dev...@li...
> Subject: [Dev-C++] Personal help question involving C/C++ and engineering.
>
>
> This is an open question to all members concerning C/C++ program
> applications.  I hope you will freely offer your advice.
>
> I am an engineer who, for the first time in his life, is suddenly
> unemployed.  All the job ads include working knowledge of C/C++ and/or
> Visual Basic in addition to all the other prerequisites, such as MMI
> programming and PLC programming.  I have years of experience in
> the latter
> but no working experience in C/C++ or Visual Basic.  I did take a formal
> course at the local community college in beginning C/C++ about
> three years
> ago because I forsaw the future need.  Non of my past positions have
> required its use so I have no working experience.  I also have no idea of
> how it is being used in engineering applications for machine control.  I
> have worked in Instrumentation and Controls and also worked on
> the edge of
> Robotic applications.  The robotics always involved interfacing to the
> system through the PLC I was using for the other controls that
> made up the
> application.  My questions are as follows:
>
> 	1. What is a typical control application where a C/C++
> program would be used?
> 	2. Could you give me an example of such a problem?
> 	3. Could you give me an example of how such problem was
> solved using a C/C++
> 	    program?
> 	4. I'm assuming that a card is used to affect a real world
> interface to a
> computer and
> 	    the program interfaces the computer to the card or some other
> peripheral equipment?
> 	5. It's a lot to ask, but I need to know how to direct my
> programming and
> learning efforts
> 	    to directly address my lack of real experience.
>
> I hope some one will take the time and patience to give me some direction
> in my efforts.  I know you have been generous with your help in my
> programming efforts in the past and the help has been right on the
> money.  Thank you.
>
>
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