Basics of Arduino Coding

You don’t require to know anything about coding before reading this article.

We are starting it from scratch…!

Arduino coding is very simple to understand and use in embedded system programming. We will discuss basic details about Arduino coding in this article so that you will be quite confident to start with Arduino coding and design your own circuits and ideas and projects using Arduino.

Here we assume that you have already installed Arduino IDEWhat is Arduino IDE? Arduino IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment. It is also called as Arduino software in general language or Arduino compiler. It is used to convert high level programming language like C/C++ program into machine code i.e. into low level language. i.e. Arduino compilerWhat is Arduino IDE? Arduino IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment. It is also called as Arduino software in general language or Arduino compiler. It is used to convert high level programming language like C/C++ program into machine code i.e. into low level language. software on your Windows PC. If you have not installed it yet, visit this direct downloading link of the software.

When downloading is complete, search the “arduino-1.8.19.zip” file in download folder of your PC, unzip the file by double clicking on it and then double click on “arduino-1.8.19.exe” file inside the zipped folder to start the installation of the software.

Now when you are ready, start reading the following topics. Remember it’s a series of posts to learn complete coding techniques about Arduino.

So when you complete reading the 1^st post, continue with the 2^nd post and 3^rd post and so on.

Take your own time to understand each topic completely and then go to the next post in this series.

The coding structure in Arduino programming is very simple. You must have at least two basic or default functionsMeaning of function in coding A function in any programming language is defined as the group of commands to carry out a particular task. It is necessary to note that all the commands in a function will execute a particular task, together. in every Arduino code, as shown below.

 void setup()
 {
  statement1;
  statement2;
  ..........
 }
 void loop()
 {
  statement1;
  statement2;
  ..........  
 }

 if(int i=5)
 {
  // write your commands below, 
  // which you want to execute when i=5
  command1;
  command2;
  ........
 }
 else
 {
  // write another commands below,
  // which you want to execute when i not equal to 5
  command3;
  command4;
  .........
 }