terminating a program

Using Arduino Programming Questions
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I am new to robots and the programming.

I have been playing with programming some.
Everything I try works but it loops continuously.

How do you terminate or stop a program?

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We could help if you show us your code and tell us what you are trying to do.
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Everything I try works but it loops continuously.

The name of the loop() function is probably a bit of a clue to what is happening. Once you tell us what you want to do you will get plenty of help.

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#define EVER (;;){}
...
...
// and when you're ready to stop
for EVER

Or you could justexit();

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rzw0wr:
How do you terminate or stop a program?

Stop with a while(1) forever true loop, after the endstop condition has become true:

if (endstop==true) while(1); // do nothing forever
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Or if you really only want the code to run once then just put it in setup()

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I found out that I need to learn how to program a sketch first.
Not as easy as I first thought.

What language is best to learn?
C/C++?

Any ideas what programmer software to down load to learn?

The tutorial I am trying to follow is using Eclipse.
Will this software be ok?

Any suggestion on where to start will be helpful.

Thank you,
Dale

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Start simple and use the Arduino IDE.
It has a ton of examples built-in

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