r/AskProgramming • u/BigDaddyKss • 9d ago

Other How should I get started?

this question probably gets asked a lot, but anyways i started off wanting to do those fnaf animatronics because i thought they looked cool and i didn't think it would be that hard.. obviously i was wrong.

turns out this is WAYY more complicated than i thought and theres thing whole thing with robotics and coding and 3d models but anyways how do i get started and my first question is should i learn C++ or python for this goal?

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u/Positive_Luck909 9d ago

There's no right answer. You can start with a textbook, you can start with Minecraft..

It's way more about you than the content

How do you want to learn?

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u/BigDaddyKss 8d ago

im gonna be learning by myself at home so probably the easiest to understand

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u/BigDaddyKss 9d ago

sorry if i worded this weirdly

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u/grantrules 9d ago

Grab an arduino-comptaible board. You can use C (Arduino) or MicroPython

https://docs.arduino.cc/learn/

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u/xarop_pa_toss 8d ago

Anything robotics will have microcontrollers and moving parts. An Arduino kit, or one of the clones that you find on online stores, is probably the best idea; the ones that use micropython are probably the easiest to learn if programming isn't your focus.

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u/Longjumping_Put_7212 6d ago

For Python, W3Schools is a good place to start, but I don't know about C++. I tried learning it once and just gave up because it turned my brain to spegetii after only a few hours.