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A tour of the Arduino IDE

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A tour of the Arduino IDE

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- [Instructor] All right. So now let's take a tour of the Arduino IDE software. The Arduino IDE uses what we call a graphical text editor for writing code with all the word processing features like copy, cut and paste. You notice that once you open the software, it comes in with a default starting code. The code contains two loops, and I will get into that a little bit later. The programs written using the Arduino software IDE are called sketches. The Arduino IDE interface contains five main sections. The Menu bar, the Task or Tool bar, the Text Editor window, the Message area and the Text Console window. Now the Text Editor, which is the white large area in the middle is for writing code that you want to send to the Arduino board. So I'm going to go ahead now and try to make an error in the code to see how can we use the other sections. So let me try to make an error within the code to see how we can use the other…

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