Robot Operating System (ROS) for Absolute Beginners: Robotics Programming Made Easy

© Lentin Joseph 2018

Lentin JosephRobot Operating System (ROS) for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3405-1_2

2. Fundamentals of C++ for Robotics Programming

Lentin Joseph¹ 

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In the last chapter, we went through detailed procedures to install Ubuntu on VirtualBox and on a real PC. We also practiced important shell commands that we are going to use while building a robot. The next important requirement for working with a robot is to learn a few programming languages. By using these languages, we can program the robot for different application. Some of the popular programming languages used for creating robotic applications are C++ and Python. This doesn’t mean that we won’t use other languages. ...