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EasyLanguage & PowerLanguage Tutorial - Lesson 01 Great, you are taking the first step towards learning to program in Multicharts and Tradestation. I am happy for you as this will be an interesting journey. This lesson will teach you the basics of the PowerLanguage and the PowerLanguage Editor. I have thought about the best way to do the lessons. On the one hand we could dive into the programming right away and I explain the theory along the way. On the other hand it seems a good idea to lay a basic foundation and build up on this. When we deal with some of the basics in later lessons you will have heard them already. This aspect of redundancy will hopefully help you learn things more easily, too. The latter approach seems to give you a better learning experience. In this lesson we will start familiarizing ourselves with the PowerLanguage Editor. We will learn the difference between inputs and variables. How to declare and initialize them (and what the two words mean as well of course). Finally this lesson will cover some good coding practices that will make your life as a programmer a lot easier. Keep in mind that I am learning to teach this to you, too. I will try to keep it not too technical, but at the same time include a couple of points that are good to know. So in case you have ideas on how to improve the teaching or any other feedback, I'd highly appreciate hearing it. Enough with the talking, let's begin our journey. Let me start with pointing out that a computer doesn't speak our language. It gets its instructions from machine code or an intermediate [...]The post EasyLanguage & PowerLanguage Tutorials - Lesson 01 appeared first on .