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Hola amigos!
My name is Fernando, I live in the UK (but I am Spanish). I studied electrical engineering where I also learnt to program with "turbopascal" and "java" about 8 years ago. Since then, I have been working as a Controls engineer, basically with PLCs and its own and a bit more visual language called "ladder logic". Programming always has been my passion and something on the back of my head. With the time off from work because quarantine I decided to take my notebooks out, get in some forums and get some online lessons again and I have to say that I am really enjoying learning and expansing my knowledge. I started with python at the moment but I am not really sure yet where I want to go as I am taking my firsts baby steps again, I may realise that with my experience maybe is good idea to learn C later as the PLCs are programmed with it on the back but as I said, I am not fully sure yet :)
My main goal is continue learning while I am working In my current job and at some point when I get more skilled in high language jump and change my career.
Thanks to codeabby and all its community for the help.
Hi Fernando! Thanks for your detailed introduction! See, it's quite interesting:
basically with PLCs and its own and a bit more visual language called "ladder logic"
I myself completed higher eductation in "Automation Control System" where PLCs and their 5 languages (including "ladder logic" - and I don't remember others) were particularly taught. I think we ended with Scada systems though it is quite vague for me already.
I also learnt to program with "turbopascal"
Funny, surprise it is still taught - I started with it in last two years of school, just bit earlier (in 98 probably).
maybe is good idea to learn C later as the PLCs
we mainly use it to program different types of controllers - MCUs in electronic devices. though modern MCUs become so powerful that they could be programmed in other languages. I love C for its clarity and simplicity, but beware - modern C++ is on contrary quite complicated language!
I see that you started with Python and think it is quite good a choice. It is most popular for education nowadays, but also has significant use in industry - in web-programming, development of automated tests, research-related tasks, data-science.
Ok, good luck to your effort! Feel free to share your thoughts or raise questions!