XPost: sci.electronics.design   
   From: me@somewhere.invalid   
      
   "Rodney Pont"  wrote:   
      
   >On Fri, 31 May 2019 11:48:07 +0100, Terry Pinnell wrote:   
   >   
   >>I bought my first Arduino UNO R3 kit two weeks ago (the Elegoo Super Starter   
   kit)   
   >>and am stepping through its tutorials. In parallel I'm trying to learn the   
   basics of   
   >>its C++ based programming language, but that's proving a struggle. I'm   
   impatient to   
   >>use Arduino on my own projects so I will take a 'copy/paste/edit' approach.   
   It then   
   >>becomes a matter of finding sketches that cover a particular subject and then   
   >>tailoring.   
   >>   
   >>I'd therefore appreciate recommendations on Arduino sketch sources that   
   others have   
   >>found useful please.   
   >   
   >I found books easier to get on with than on screen things   
   Me too.   
      
   >but I'm an oldie   
   Me too.   
      
   >and a long term programmer.   
   Not me.   
      
   I'm currently ploughing through Simon Monk's 'Programming Arduino, 2nd   
   Edition'.   
   Quite readable up to his first complex example, flashing Morse code to the LED   
   from   
   the serial monitor), mainly because of its use of arrays within arrays ;-(   
      
   >   
   >Arduino for Dummies is good for getting used to Arduino with worked   
   >examples.   
      
   Went straight to your next recommendation as I hope Monk's book and the online   
   tutorials I'm studying will get me to a stage I can benefit from the Margolis.   
      
   >Arduino Cookbook published by O'Reilly is also very good and goes into   
   >programming techniques such as loops, decision structures and variable   
   >types.   
   Looks good, although pretty expensive at £24 (~ $30), but have just ordered.   
      
   >I presume those would be useful to a started in programming. It   
   >states the problem (such as You want to send text and data from your   
   >Arduino to your pc) and then shows a solution.   
      
   Thanks, appreciated.   
      
   Terry, East Grinstead, UK   
      
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