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[Saint]:
If you *really* do want to start programming for Rockbox, learn C and don't get distracted by the fact that LUA "looked easier".
And take a look at:

Win OS Compiling
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SimpleGuideToCompiling

          CygWin
          http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CygwinDevelopment

          VMware Image
          http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/VMwareDevelopmentPlatform

Linux OS Compiling
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/LinuxSimpleGuideToCompiling

Detailed Instructions on Compiling
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/HowToCompile

New Ports
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/NewPort

Porting: How to
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/PortingHowTo

First Time Guide to Development
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/DevelopmentGuide


These links took me about 10 seconds to find (probably a lot less as typing was in there somewhere too  ;D), in future the Wiki is the perfect place to direct "noob questions".
You'll more than likely find that 99% of your "noob questions" can be answered by doing a little bit of reading on the Rockbox Wiki.

The answers may not be presented in a format that the completely technically illiterate can understand readily, but they are there.



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Jason Arthur Taylor:

--- Quote from: saratoga on December 28, 2009, 11:42:21 PM ---Let me suggest to you that the reason we go through such trouble to use the sim instead of actual targets is that running code on a device is a pain in the ass.  Pretty much anything is better to learn or test on then an mp3 player.

--- End quote ---
I see your side saratoga, but with the greatest respect to your seniority here, I would humbly submit that the above statement only makes sense to me if there were not a sim.  There is. 

I'd go so far as to take it up a notch by saying an even simplier way to learn programming would be to code up something in the 128x64 chip8 rockbox emulator plugin.  Double simulatored.  But a super simple environment so close to body.  Cheap too.  Winblows development package costs what, $500 for MS developer kits these days and another $300 of x86 hardware?  MP3 player goes for $20 and a kid can use it while waiting for a bus.  They wanted one laptop per child.  Look what that did.  I'd say feed them cheap mp3 players instead.  Worth a shot.  Just another side to look at.
Cheers

saratoga:

--- Quote from: Jason Taylor on January 01, 2010, 03:58:29 PM ---
--- Quote from: saratoga on December 28, 2009, 11:42:21 PM ---Let me suggest to you that the reason we go through such trouble to use the sim instead of actual targets is that running code on a device is a pain in the ass.  Pretty much anything is better to learn or test on then an mp3 player.

--- End quote ---
I see your side saratoga, but with the greatest respect to your seniority here, I would humbly submit that the above statement only makes sense to me if there were not a sim.  There is. 

I'd go so far as to take it up a notch by saying an even simplier way to learn programming would be to code up something in the 128x64 chip8 rockbox emulator plugin.  Double simulatored.  But a super simple environment so close to body.  Cheap too.  Winblows development package costs what, $500 for MS developer kits these days and another $300 of x86 hardware?  MP3 player goes for $20 and a kid can use it while waiting for a bus.  They wanted one laptop per child.  Look what that did.  I'd say feed them cheap mp3 players instead.  Worth a shot.  Just another side to look at.

--- End quote ---

I don't really understand this reply.  All I mean is that running code on an mp3 player is a huge pain in the ass compared to running it on a PC, so I wouldn't recommend it if you can use something else. 

GodEater:

--- Quote from: Jason Taylor on January 01, 2010, 03:58:29 PM ---I'd go so far as to take it up a notch by saying an even simplier way to learn programming would be to code up something in the 128x64 chip8 rockbox emulator plugin.  Double simulatored.  But a super simple environment so close to body.  Cheap too.  Winblows development package costs what, $500 for MS developer kits these days and another $300 of x86 hardware?  MP3 player goes for $20 and a kid can use it while waiting for a bus.  They wanted one laptop per child.  Look what that did.  I'd say feed them cheap mp3 players instead.  Worth a shot.  Just another side to look at.
Cheers

--- End quote ---

But you can't program ON the mp3 player - you can only do that on a computer.

Jason Arthur Taylor:
Which is fine.  In the us, it (computer access) isn't an isue.  In a place like India, where they have computer labs and are 15 yeras behind in that respect, and the fraction of time spent programming is small (which it must be), it is even better, since kids can have their cake and eat it too.  Show off potential is huge.

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