On 07/21/2018 07:36 PM, deloptes wrote:
Hi, how old are you?
The way you wrote is supposing you are New Gen kid.
Why thank you! :) Actually, physically I'm over half a century old. I
just try to keep a young mind. I'm a New Gen kid to all this new tech
stuff though.
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?
*gulp* Python libraries? Cython compiler for the Arduino CPU?
When I wrote this I didn't know exactly what I'm getting into. I heard
of Arduino and had the impression it's an ARM or ARM-type processor on a
board and you can interact with your electronic circuits you build with
it and a computer. After writing the post I went and looked up some
YouTube tutorials for beginners. I probably should have done that first
before inserting foot in mouth. :-/
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.
:
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.
I'll remain hopeful. I'm going to have a long list of things I'll want
to learn.
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.
Well, since I use Debian I assumed this would be a place to ask what to
get from the Debian repo that would help in achieving my goal. But you
do make a good point. I'll have to find some Arduino forums to ask some
questions in because I'm quite sure I'll have a lot of them.
