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Advantages Of Programming?

Morning All

Would anyone like to chime in on what the advantages are to using the programmer's version of EZ instead of the non-programmer one? I'm a total novice (research psychologist by trade) but am willing to learn C++ or another language.

Thanks,

Daniel


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#1  
Advantages to using non-programmer ARC

1.ARC is simple to learn and the EZ-Script is very easy.
2.You have a bunch of user friendly controls with more being added often.
3.C++ is complicated to learn
4.Almost everyone here knows everything about ARC so you can easily get help when you need it. there are much less people on this forum who know c++.
United Kingdom
#2  
Advantages of using the SDK... Not many to be honest.

I looked in to using it to push me to learn C#. It didn't last long when I realised how often ARC is updated, how powerful the EZ-Script can be (and it's getting better and better all the time too) and couldn't think of many reasons not to use ARC.

If you already have something written in c# or have a specific requirement that isn't in ARC yet then the SDK is the way to go but to be honest, ARC is the popular option even amongst programmers for a reason.

If you are a novice I would highly suggest using ARC and not wasting time trying to learn C#.

Hope that helps.
#3  
can any one please give me the link to learn the vb.net ez-robot sdk i'm good in programming and need to add new things to the ez-b
#4  
Excellent feedback everyone.

Thanks!

Daniel:D
#5  
There is a getting started with visual basic ARC API tutorial.
http://www.ez-robot.com/Community/Forum/posts.aspx?threadId=44

As with others I tried visual basic and found the ARC script to be a much faster way to program my robot. There are some complex things that I may get to eventually that require a more custom program approach so I looked at visual basic with ARC API a while back to see if I could get the gist of it.
Ecuador
#6  
The advantage of SDK is that you can create your own program and implement a lot of new things, for example I have implemented KInect to my robot, Imagine, when you know how to progrma you can do a lot of cool things
Belgium
#7  
I prefer the SDK although the EZ-Script has become very powerfull. The SDK (I'm using VB) alows you to create custom made applications that you can adapt to your specific needs or whishes.
#8  
Advantages of ask over ARC
1. Build a completely custom interface both functionally and visually

2. Create features that are not in ARC

3. Ego boost - you did it just because you could

Well that's all I can think of lol
Belgium
#9  
Great answer ! That's the spirit !