A few Prime programming questions

[Brad Barton]

(09-28-2017 03:29 PM)Dave Britten Wrote:  What's the best environment for programming on a PC? The Connectivity Kit lets you edit copies of a program directly on the Prime, but I'm not sure if there's some way to edit a local copy of the program, and transfer it to the Prime (or emulator) for testing.

And is there an easy way to enter special characters, such as the Greek or math symbols? I can't find any sort of symbol palette in the Connectivity Kit.

Not a heavy duty programmer here, but you can get an HPPPL plug in for Notepad++ . It's available at hpcalc.org (http://www.hpcalc.org/details/7564) It includes highlighted reserved words and auto complete along with command details. Not sure about special characters, but there is a configurable ASCII conversion tool that you could set up.

I've used it to cut and paste into the emulator for debug, then moved programs to the calculator once it's finished. Works reasonably well.

Brad