Hi, how old are you? The way you wrote is supposing you are New Gen kid. Anyway few answers inline
cyaiplexys wrote: > I am getting the Elegoo Super Starter Kit (Arduino Uno R3) to tinker > with (it's on order as of when I'm writing this post). > > I looked in the Debian repos for stuff on Arduino and didn't find much > (at least not of interest to me). > What did you expect to find exactly? > I did download the IDE from Elegoo and their tutorials and libraries. > But it's all in C/C++. While I do know C and C++ (to some extent), I'm > very bad at it (I admit to not using it very much, maybe once every > other blue moon and lately we haven't had any blue moons that warranted > using C). > Well for low level programming mostly C is used actually. New things to learn -> write a list with dependencies and priorities. > I recently been doing stuff in Python (especially for work, which is not > Arduino related in any way). I am really getting to like Python. I have > created my own Python Libraries for other things (again unrelated) and > even compiled them to .so (binary) using the 'cython' compiler. > More to learn -> add to the list > While I could create C source of a Python script using cython, I don't > know how to compile the resulting C source and upload it to the Arduino > board. I would like to use gcc. > More to learn -> add to the list > Is there a cross-platform compiler for Arduino and gcc that anyone has > had experience with that works or they can recommend? > More to learn -> add to the list I did not have a look at Arduino but played with AVR chip programming, so sure there is for Arduino as well. > Or some way to program in Python? > > I'll use C/C++ until I can figure the Python stuff out. But I really > would like to be able to use Python at some point. Finally you are on the wrong user list. This is general debian user list and we discuss only debian related questions. IMO Arduino and related should be somewhere else. regards
