Getting started with Arduino

Today we'll go over the rudiments of programming the Arduino. Enough for you to do the pre-lab assignment.

Readings in 'Programming Arduino'

In the textbook that I'll call PA, Programming Arduino, Getting started with sketches, Simon Monk...

• Chapter 1, "This is Arduino" has a lot of interesting / useful info about the history of the Arduino board and explanations of what the functions of the different parts of the board.
• Ch 2, "Getting Started" relates the most to what we'll cover today: Opening the IDE; Getting at the example programs, called sketches; Checking your code; Uploading your sketch to a board;
• Ch 3, "C Language Basics" A few pieces of this are useful right away: Line-by-line execution of lines that must end with ;; Case sensitivity; Code blocks between curly brackets {...}; Comments starting with //.