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Re: Arduino and Python or gcc compiler?

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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.

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Arduino and Python or gcc compiler? cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net> - 2018-07-22 00:40 +0200
  Re: Arduino and Python or gcc compiler? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-07-22 01:40 +0200
    Re: Arduino and Python or gcc compiler? cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net> - 2018-07-22 04:10 +0200
      Re: Arduino and Python or gcc compiler? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-07-22 12:30 +0200
        Re: Arduino and Python or gcc compiler? cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net> - 2018-07-22 16:50 +0200
      Re: Arduino and Python or gcc compiler? Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2018-07-22 18:50 +0200
  Re: Arduino and Python or gcc compiler? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-07-22 03:10 +0200
    Re: Arduino and Python or gcc compiler? cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net> - 2018-07-22 04:20 +0200
  Re: Arduino and Python or gcc compiler? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-07-22 09:40 +0200

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