Arduino IDE

What is an IDE?

An integrated development environment (IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. An IDE normally consists of at least a source code editor, build automation tools, and a debugger. Some IDEs, such as NetBeans and Eclipse, contain the necessary compiler, interpreter, or both;

The Arduino IDE is an IDE build for programming the arduinos. >There arte other IDE's like platformio you can use instead. Also some web ides for the development are available in the cloud. And there are also visual IDEs like ardublockly.

How to use the Arduino IDE

1. Installation
2. Configure it
3. Use it for different boards

What do we develop with this IDE?

1. We develop sketches

So, what is a sketch

it is a part of source code you can compile and transmit to the arduino to interact with the arduino system.

void setup() { } void loop() { }

SETUP is the function the arduino jumps to for configure settings for the usage in the loop

LOOP is the function the arduino jumps to every time after setup. The loop will be run through loop after loop.

Configuring of the Arduino IDE for working in a team

1. Select the right board, in our case the Arduino/Genuino Uno
2. Select the right board
3. add new libraries
4. Get familar with the Filestructure of the arduino
5. Use git for version control
6. Use a common repository on a central server for the hole team
7. at my home I use gogs, as a central repository, there are others like
   1. gerrit
   2. gitlab
   3. github