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You could probably get started and implement many ideas without even touching an IDE or a compiler for quite a while. | You could probably get started and implement many ideas without even touching an IDE or a compiler for quite a while. | ||
That might actually be the easiest route for you to proceed in the beginning. Programming knowledge would obviously still be useful. | That might actually be the easiest route for you to proceed in the beginning. Programming knowledge would obviously still be useful, because Nasal scripting is "real programming", many programming concepts you'll encounter in Nasal will seem familiar to people with previous programming experience. | ||
The "Nasal" programming language built into FG is syntactically very close to C and C++ - so you could run your own code inside FG without having to build FG from source, no need for compilers or an IDE. FlightGear IS the run time environment for Nasal code. | The "Nasal" programming language built into FG is syntactically very close to C and C++ - so you could run your own code inside FG without having to build FG from source, no need for compilers or an IDE. FlightGear IS the run time environment for Nasal code. | ||