Have you ever wanted to learn how to program a BAS? In the latest episode of the Building Automation Monthly Podcast we discuss how BAS programming works and how you can go about learning to program HVAC with your BAS programming software. Understanding the why behind your programming actions (1:15) Why your mentality determines if you can program (5:00) The traditional way of learning to program (5:30) The questions you need to ask yourself before programming (6:55) Is your program user dependent or user independent (9:55) What is programming? (12:07) How DDC controllers enabled us to write programs (13:00) Do you really understand inputs and outputs (15:50) How your choice of variable type will determine the safety of your programs (22:05) The two ways of programming BAS (25:00) Five steps to programming success (27:52) The reason you must write your boolean logic before your analog logic (30:40) Why following the sequence line for line is a recipe for disaster (33:55)