How to read PX4 open source program

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Hello,
I am a student and a fan of UAV .Now I want to play it,but I don’t understand the PX4 code and don’t know how to read those code. So I want some suggestion of read PX4 code.
I hope I can get some reply.
Best Regards.

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Use Visual Studio or Eclipse.

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Thank you for your suggestion,but my mean is how to read the code itself rather than with what tools to read the code.:slight_smile: Thanks

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read in you heart.:grinning:

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Depends on what you want to do.

I am a student and a beginner in this platform too. One thing I have learned in these last months is that I am not gonna understand everything at once. So I focus in what I need in order to achieve my goals.

You should ask yourself what are your goals. E.g.: one wants to know more about the flight control algorithm. So start with the mc_att_control.cpp / fw_att_control.cpp algorithms.

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this is a good suggestion

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A lot of the terms are identical to C++ coding. I’d suggest looking up the terms on the sites listed below. Anything not there should be in the PX4 Development Guide.

http://www.cplusplus.com/

http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/c++-tutorial.html

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Find this pretty useful. I’m not vouching for the accuracy (found it via google, not written by me) but it helped kickstarted a lot of my development work.

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This is a good idea and I hope we can learn together,so I want to know where are you come from and make friend with you.
Thanks.

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I think your suggestion is very useful for me .
Thanks

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I don’t know how to express my gratitude.
The website you give is very useful for me.
Thanks.
Best Regards.

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you might be interested in this

someone posted this on gitter dev chat a while back