unlovedwarrior

hi im a new to programming and i need some help.
i want to program lights to turn off and on at certain times what lang. would i need to learn for this the lights will be installed in a table

Benoit

Depends on how you are interfacing with the lights I suppose. I saw someone in my program using Phidgets (http://www.phidgets.com/) with C/C++ to do something similar.

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unlovedwarrior

ok thanks ill look into it

colin mac

You'll have to be more specific. What kind of lights? How many? Also what you mean by certain times, as in times of the day or turn off and on in a sequence.

unlovedwarrior

on a table and i want it to say a message led

colin mac

You'll still need to be more helpful in your posts than this if you want help. Forgive me if English is not your first language.
It's not clear why you need a program. It's easy to turn leds on and off using some IC's instead of a program but it depends on how clever you want the leds to be and how many. Otherwise I'll guess and say your best bet would be to use a microcontroller unless you don't have access to a way of programming one.
If you want to use a PC, then you should be able send bytes out from the parallel port depending on things like your OS.

Klarre

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unlovedwarrior

English is my main lang. i just suck at it. but i want to make the table to keep score of a game and im not sure how many lights ill need

colin mac

The easiest way is to use a microcontroller. You could build something like this using a PIC.
http://picprojects.org.uk/projects/c...r.htm#Overview
If you're only interested in having a scoreboard rather than making one, it would be cheaper to buy one. If you're interested in using a PIC, you can program one in BASIC.
http://www.mikroe.com/en/books/picbasicbook/00.htm