If anyone is interested in mentoring me with coding in MT4 please respond, thanks.
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I have programmed in C, C++ and way, way back in Pascal, although I have not programmed in many years. I don't know if you would consider me a programmer or not but I think I have enough of the skills left.
I don't know anything about the MT4 language and I cannot find a lot on the internet.
Any help you could give me would be appreciated, thanks for your reply.
The links given by Xaphod are good ones.
The 'Documentation' link at the top of the mql4.com site is the same as the MQL4 editor's online help. Pressing F1 in the editor accesses this help directly, providing syntax and examples for any keyword directly under the cursor.
The 'Book' link at the top of the mql4.com site provides explanation and some good examples of coding specifics, e.g. how to use the commands to send, modify and delete orders; create and set parameters for chart objects; and access data from technical indicators. If you can get your head around those concepts, and also the way in which buffers (arrays) are used to present calculated values in chart windows, then the rest of MQL4 is basically just a watered down version of C. Most of the data types, string and array handling, if....else...., while, for, break, continue, etc should seem pleasantly familiar to anybody with some background in C. I did a reasonable amount of C programming in the 1980s/90s and found the transition easy.
I've extended the MQL4 language by adding 70+ functions that perform various type conversions, formatting, array handling, data manipulation, etc etc here. Please feel welcome to use any of them that are helpful to you.
Good luck,
David