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What is a “library?” What is the Arduino IDE? What are HEX files? What is Etherkit Si5351 v.2.0.1? What is a Sketch? What is a library update? How do you compile a library update? What does compile mean? How do you upload a library update after you compile it? What does remote programming experience in Basic have to do with any of the preceding questions??

Simon,

I am a newbie as well and it is like drinking from a firehose as they have reinvented new words for old processes.

1.?????? Library – a group of instructions that applies to a particular device that allows you to talk to it in C+. It is attached to your sketch (program) with the include statement.

2.?????? The IDE is the piece of software that you load to enter your instructions and compile to the machinr language the Arduino understands. (Hex File)

3.?????? The Eitherkit is the library for the Si5351 which is the component that actually generates the various frequencies sent to the radio such as the BFO, VFO and display frequencies to an LCD or other display.

4.?????? Using the IDE you can compile your sketch to check for errors or compile and upload the compiled program to the Arduino via a USB cable. The program allows the USB port to be assigned as a COM port for not only sending the compiled sketch but to get information back from the Arduino and display it on your computer screen.

5.?????? Your understanding of BASIC gives you an understanding of programming and it is now simply learning the C+ language constraints. No line numbers, but the requirement for a semicolon after every line gives me fits. I forget it half the time (Grin)

6.?????? The best way to learn is to look at the sketches the Gurus have programmed and work r way through them.

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V/R

Fred W4JLE

A lost fellow PhD

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of College Professor Simon Thompson
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2017 21:32
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [BITX20] Blinking red light

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What is a “library?” What is the Arduino IDE? What are HEX files? What is Etherkit Si5351 v.2.0.1? What is a Sketch? What is a library update? How do you compile a library update? What does compile mean? How do you upload a library update after you compile it? What does remote programming experience in Basic have to do with any of the preceding questions??

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You see, you know more than you think you know; you take what you know for granted, so you assume that what you know is not so much. Those of us who are not familiar with the terminology and concepts simply find this “oh, there is nothing to it” routine rather hard to believe.?

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Simon,

I am a newbie as well and it is like drinking from a firehose as they have reinvented new words for old processes.

1.????? Library – a group of instructions that applies to a particular device that allows you to talk to it in C+. It is attached to your sketch (program) with the include statement.

2.????? The IDE is the piece of software that you load to enter your instructions and compile to the machinr language the Arduino understands. (Hex File)

3.????? The Eitherkit is the library for the Si5351 which is the component that actually generates the various frequencies sent to the radio such as the BFO, VFO and display frequencies to an LCD or other display.

4.????? Using the IDE you can compile your sketch to check for errors or compile and upload the compiled program to the Arduino via a USB cable. The program allows the USB port to be assigned as a COM port for not only sending the compiled sketch but to get information back from the Arduino and display it on your computer screen.

5.????? Your understanding of BASIC gives you an understanding of programming and it is now simply learning the C+ language constraints. No line numbers, but the requirement for a semicolon after every line gives me fits. I forget it half the time (Grin)

6.????? The best way to learn is to look at the sketches the Gurus have programmed and work r way through them.

?

V/R

Fred W4JLE

A lost fellow PhD

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of College Professor Simon Thompson
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2017 21:32
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [BITX20] Blinking red light

?

What is a “library?” What is the Arduino IDE? What are HEX files? What is Etherkit Si5351 v.2.0.1? What is a Sketch? What is a library update? How do you compile a library update? What does compile mean? How do you upload a library update after you compile it? What does remote programming experience in Basic have to do with any of the preceding questions??

?

You see, you know more than you think you know; you take what you know for granted, so you assume that what you know is not so much. Those of us who are not familiar with the terminology and concepts simply find this “oh, there is nothing to it” routine rather hard to believe.?