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Did you know that the Arduino company provides for free three different tools for programming your Arduino board?
They're called Integrated Development Environments or IDEs. If you're trying to figure out which one you should use, then check out this episode. We're gonna talk about the Arduino Web Editor, the original Arduino IDE and the new Arduino IDE 2.0. By the end of this lesson, you'll have an idea of which one's gonna be the best fit for what you need to do.
You know, when you're just getting into Arduino, there's a lot to learn. Because you know, there's hardware and there's also software. The software that you need to program in Arduino or an Arduino-compatible board is all free provided by Arduino. It's all open source software. And to get that software, you just go to the Arduino website and you click on the software tab. And when you're here, you're kind of greeted by a bunch of different options. And it might be like, "Hey, which one am I supposed to get? Just tell me, you know."
So we're gonna talk about all three options:
-Web Editor
-Arduino IDE
-Arduino IDE
So let's go ahead and start talking about the original Arduino IDE version. It's simple to download, you just pick your operating system on the right-hand side, it'll start a download. You go through the installation steps and it'll open up. These are the most current stable versions, right here. Now, if you wanted to get a previous version, you can click here and you can get a bunch of the previous versions, or if you wanna get the absolute hot off the press, newest version of this IDE, then you can download it here. Now they're still maintaining the original Arduino IDE. So this is gonna be the most recent updated features and bug fixes of the original Arduino IDE.
So the original Arduino IDE looks like this. Right here, it looks like a kind of a text editor. Now, if you've been into software development for awhile, this might look a little rinky-dink to you. There's really not a lot going on. Like, there's not buttons everywhere to have like 10 million preferences and, there's really not much like code highlighting or anything like that. There's no auto-complete. There's not a lot of anything. It's like very much just a trimmed down text editor. You know, you just put in your code and run it. You know, like one, two, three, four, there's like five buttons up here. So it's just a really simple editor. And it hasn't changed much, like the appearance of it hasn't changed much in a long time. And that is one of its biggest features, I think. That it's super simple. And I think that's one of its best features actually, is that it is super simple. Especially if you're new to programming, sometimes trying to figure out what an IDE can do and how it works, can get really confusing.
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