Learning from this man is magic, so informative and has a bit of a light hearted laugh along the way making it fun. Don't think most people realise the time and effort that goes into making these videos, many hours of work and devotion.
I've been programming for 25 years. I still get scared when things work perfectly the first time. Side note: Defensive programming is great but you gotta be experienced to gain an intuition, along with knowing if you should put the defensive code at the top (where the input happens) or bottom (where processing happens). There's no right answer, it depends on how you choose to architect it. But some things, like displaying an LED on a board that only take Int values, with defined maximums and minimums... don't really need a defense against too big/wrong type. However, when user input is free, or other things can happen, definitely write defensively.
Paul, I'm 81 and retired from the airline industry as a software engineer. Thank you for making learning and using Arduino so interesting and enjoyable.
No Homework? Mashed up the last lesson (Potentiometers- dimmable LED) with this one - Instead of a dimming the LED - used the potentiometer to make the red LED blink from 0 to 10 times (analogRead of 0 = 0 blinks and 1023 = 10 blinks). Works! Thanks, Paul. Actually learning something.
I agree. I taught Middle School for 32 years and I had a bunch of sixth graders who'd have eaten this up. I think the math equations might have been a stretch, but kids are so incredibly smart. They'd love it.
For loops just opened a whole new world of possibilities. Great lesson!! I can't believe there are people that dislike your videos. If they can't find it here, they must be searching for the wrong things.
Today's comment Paul . I just realized how much difference there is in your videos when compared to the ones I used to watch. Other video presenters are either a: proving how much they know by zipping through each item thinking that speech speed indicates a vast subject knowledge or b: they expect the average newbie to remember everything that has been on screen minutes before. Both useless to me as I have a condition which affects short term memory. The fact that all info is on screen at the same time helps me an awful lot. I simply have to rewatch 2 -3 times before the subject matter sinks in. Thank you Paul for your efforts. They are very much appreciated.
Paul -- I am a retired aerospace engineer and have taken on the Arduino as a hobby. Thanks for the lessons -- I will eventually use it on my home flight simulator!
Paul, I am 75 years old and still love learning something new. Your Arduino tutorials have provided inspiration and knowledge. Please add me to your notification list.
Every lesson is amazing itself! Every lesson has its funny nuances as "holding breath the program to work" or "happy little orange" and many other! Thank you so much, Paul, for your super lessons! I really appreciate you making them! And, Yes, i holded my breath and it worked! :D Haha! P.S. Forgive me, that i used blue LED in every situation! I won't do this mistake anymore!
Since it is almost 1/4 of this course playlist I would like to share my results! I did these 15 videos in 2 days because the explanation and the video format are just on another level therefore it was very easy to learn. I really enjoyed every second of this course. In fact, I tried Arduino courses before but they were not as great as this course is. I treated Arduino as just a piece of hardware but I never understood the depth of its work. I never thought deeply about physics behind this. Maybe that is why I never felt confident in my Arduino skills. Now I feel much more confident and I have so much motivation! Thank you, Mr Paul McWhorter! Much love from Kazakhstan
The little test at the start of this video with the blinking yellow and red light, It was the the first one i have done without looking back at something. Very Happy!
Hi Paul. Am enjoying your Arduino tutorials. I am using Tinkercad to simulate the practicals as I am at work in the middle of the Sahara Desert and do not travel with a box full of electronics in my bag. Looking forward to working through the rest of the tutorials.
Hey Paul, 31 years old, thought I would learn this since it's always been a passion. With the information age, I am happy to be alive at this time, being able to educate yourself is very freeing. PS. Always do my homework right after watching the video.
It's been 6 decades since using AS degree in "Electrical Technology". These videos are a great refresher for both the principles and coding (originally FORTRAN programming). Enjoying myself!
Yep, but dont you miss the old 'Go To' command, like goto 221, and it would jump to line 221. Wow, I miss those days. Programming has never been the same.
@@paulmcwhorter yeah, I felt very accomplished in those days. They say learning new things is great for maintaining cognition so enjoying new challenges. ICs versus soldering individual transistors, diodes, etc on boards one had to mask and etch is a whole new world. Starting to get the hang of "pins". PS Can't handle black coffee. My stomach has always objected! Two tablespoons of half and half per 12 oz cup and I'm with you!
@@paulmcwhorter 72 retired and used to program in Basic. Boy do I miss the goto statements. Now that I have learned them it seems to make it harder to learn to do without
Hello P My name is Anne (male) living in the Netherlands, and 69 years of age. I worked in the medical divices and from the late 1980 I lost contact with the electronic-technics. Now I have time and am enjoying to be a student again with your tutorials . Thanks!!
Paul: I am 80 years old and I have been an electrical engineer for 50 years in the aerospace industry. Thank you for these tutorials they are very helpful to me trying to learn more about programming. You are a very good teacher and remind me of some of the instructors I had in college - only better.
This is such an amazing series ! I'm glad you're one of those people that love to delve into the nitty gritty of stuff and show the mistakes you make so that we all can be more aware of those. So often people just blitz through these things.
I just decided to learn about pcb and breadboards I actually ordered some on Amazon and while I was ordering you came on RUclips and started teaching about circuit boards and I was like boom. Thank you
I really like your teaching style, "internally making errors", to show how to trouble shoot and if we can spot the errors before running the program........ . LOVE IT!!!!!
I never used to like math and now after watching 15 of these videos I'm excited out about math which I never thought I would be I'm in my 50s and really enjoying every one of these videos thank you so much😊👍
Paul, thank you for these tutorials. I bet you didn't think that three years later these videos would still be being used. I have always wanted to get into building pcb and small electronics and programming as well. I tried some years ago but gave up because I didn't have anyone who could explain it this way. for loops are no mystery to me any longer. Thanks again.
Love the tutorials! I spent my career heading up IT and am having a blast learning about Arduino in my retirement. You are an EXCELLENT instructor and I am able to follow your lessons, have been able to build them all and have "invented" some on my own. Thank you so much!
I have bought my Arduino 5 years ago, but it is first after I found your tutorials, I have got it to work. Hope to build and controle robots som day! Thanks!
Fabulous series! I am a Retired Building Controls Tech. I am learning the math after a career of just plugging numbers into a controller! This series is my 'stay-in-place' go-to sanity check. God is Good! Thanks Paul
My name is Joseph, i am beginner in Arduino and i just discovered yuor lessons. Thank for sharing knowledge in your lessons, they are very, very informative, thank you Paul for your dedication :)
Holding my breath made this lesson fun and reminded me how deep breathing helps one to relax and lets stress flow away! Thank you for another great lesson!
Sir, I salute you! If I had a teacher like you when I had to go through all the programming classses, I probably would have liked it. I do now, that you for that! I love watching the tutorials, very clear, very informative. Again, my thanks!
Patience is rewarded. I found the "for" command online when I was looking for an easier way to repeat portions of a loop but I could not figure it out within a few minutes so I did not worry. I knew you would cover it and your explanation was very helpful. Thanks.
Hey Paul, I was looking for a good youtuber to code Arduino and I found you! You are the best Arduino teacher on youtube! Thank you for teaching me Arduino.
Thank you for these lessons! My son enjoys following your lessons. He wanted to leave this message: "Though I might not be the brightest bulb (and quite often on the dimmer side) the way Paul explains theese lessons really makes it so even the dimmest of us can understand. PS (now I know why I need algebra.)"
Let your son know this. The person that will succeed is the person who tries the hardest. You can not control how smart you are, but you can control how hard you work. The hardest working person will beat out the smartest person every time. Choose to be the hardest working person in the room, every time, and you will go far in life.
Thank you Mr. Mcwhorter. Great lesson and I'm taking notes, I want to learn this by heart. Your style of teaching is wonderful, I wish I had you as a teacher back when I was in school. Better late than never 😁
That was great. Had some trouble with typing mistakes but got it sorted. It's interesting that most commentors are about 12 hours ahead of me. I am in Vancouver BC so I'm guessing that a lot of the comments are coming from England. I do this at about 7pm PST.
Thank you for today's lesson. I really liked how you put the curly clause symbols first, then you put the for with the two parenthesis, and then you declared the variable j, and then you populated the parenthesis's to tell it how to act by putting the declared value of j in the parenthesis, and the you put the condition, and then you incremented j by 1. By doing that you for the first time allowed me to understand the syntax of a for loop! Thank you!
Hi Paul, I am making my way through al the tutorials and I'm so happy to find a presentor with easy to follow instructions. Especially I like the tip with the J instead of the i - many thanks! Am now saying happy little orange colour all the time ahaha.
Thanks Paul, I really enjoy the way to teaches. I am senior director of engineering in Semiconductor firm and although I learn all physics at the university, I admire the simple and clear way you explain the basics of semiconductors and conductivity. Since collage days were ~30 years ago you help me to sharpen up my pencil. Can't wait for your next video. Amazing Job!
Hi Paul. My wife asked me for a automatic plant watering system, and thanks to you she might get it some day cause your videos are great! Thanks a lot!
During this lesson the light finally came on I started understanding things from a new indifferent perspective. Thanks, so much Paul you are such a gifted teacher and I appreciate you and I do help a brother out thank you again. Retired Rev.
5/5 * I am a retro electronics component level repair technician (London, UK) and consider myself as an electronics enthusiast at 62. My goal is to try to get grips with modern electronics and get back to a design technician role which is probably very difficult at the current economic situation, but I do like a good challenge. Furthermore, I would like to assure you that you ARE doing a great job with your teaching method. I also find myself doing the assignments that you set at the end of some tutorials (and experiment with some tweaking of the code ... and like you I get immense pleasure when I see my attempt successful. I bought my kit some years back and went on a very thorough and complete course for Arduino (no names mentioned!) but lost interest some time down the road. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for rekindling my passion for modern electronics and programming combination. Please continue the great work. 5/5 *
Paul: When I was young I thought I'd be a computer science major and do computers for a living. I took one class in Pascal in college and I got totally turned off, and decided coding is just not for me. I became a music major instead. What was the issue? I spent around 15 hours in the computer lab trying to debug a program that wouldn't compile. Finally I realized: I had a lower case "l" instead of a 1. But now you've gotten me back into programming, and I'm enjoying it! Thanks!
Thank you Paul for what you do. I've just started to take your course on how to succeed in an engineering career. your channel will keep me busy for months.
Thanks old timer for teaching me something that betters me as a person. Your awesome. looking forward to more input more input sorry I grew up in the 80s short circuit was one of my favorite movies as a kid.
Here is my homework, had a bit of a different approach and accidently used digital pins :) these are amazing tutorials! thank you so much for your time and effort int yPin=7; int rPin=8; int yCount = 0; int rCount = 0; int wait = 200; void setup() { pinMode(rPin, OUTPUT); pinMode(yPin, OUTPUT); Serial.begin(9600); } void loop() { if(yCount=5){ Serial.println("Yellow blinked 3 times, and then red blinked 5 times"); Serial.println("Resetting..."); delay(2500); yCount=0; rCount=0; } }
I know these videos are all a min of 20 min so why does it only feel like 5 minutes long? Thank you Paul for being so engaging and making this so much fun.
I love your method, You are a really successful teacher, it was 10 years that I hated learning C programming while I really need it. But by watching your tutorial videos, surprisingly I am learning C programming and I am so happy and more than thankful. I appreciate. Thank you Thank you Thank you
Hey Paul, I just came back to Arduino after several years away. I never got very far last time as most tutorials were "Do this, Do that." I can follow those and gained some knowledge, but wanted understanding, and got frustrated and set it aside. Your tutorials are giving me the understanding I was seeking both in the circuit design, components, and coding. Thanks much!
You're the best, i'm currently doing a 2 Year Electrical Engineering Technician course and we have to do some programming and this helps a lot thank you :) Cheers from Canada
I like the homework you give us to do. I often feel like my mind goes blank when you give us a project but once I get into Arduino I have to get creative remembering things and making it work. It's pretty fun.
Hello Paul I'm following your excellent Arduino tutorials, they are the best ones I've seen so far. Thankyou for really taking the time to explain why you do things the way way you do.
So my son was watching with me while I learned to program my Arduino and he made the comment that this guy is like the Bob Ross of Arduinos. And I thought that is the most accurate description of your videos I've heard. You take a complicated task and make it simple. I haven't done any programming since I took FORTRAN in college 25 years ago, but your series is bringing it all back. Keep up the good work!
"the bob ross of coding", always putting a positive perspective on things, so thank you for making so many in depth, but fun tutorials, keep being awesome =)
I am really happy to find you as an Arduino Code explainer. Such a great teacher you are. Your explanation is so easy and understandable. Thanks for sharing.
I obtain almost the same effect with: int i; int Rosu=8; int pauza=500; int z; void setup() { // put your setup code here, to run once: pinMode(Rosu, OUTPUT); Serial.begin(9600); } void loop() { // put your main code here, to run repeatedly: while (i < 5) { // Your code here if (z=5){ digitalWrite(Rosu, LOW); digitalWrite(Rosu, HIGH); delay(pauza); Serial.println (i); digitalWrite(Rosu, LOW); delay(pauza); i += 1; } z=1; } Thank you for the lessons. Very, very good. I/m an MD, so I have not idea about electronics. I discovered your channel. A great pleasant surprise
apologies everyone for not holding my breath in the first time
it's okay
*Coughs* Me too...
Monster.
I'm a 52 year old truck driver and I still get excited when I see the notification telling me there's a new Paul McWhorter Arduino tutorial LOL
YES, I will be 60 years old next month and love the learning experience this man gives us all.
@@iandawkins2182 I'm turning 38 and still learning electronics. Thanks go to nice people like our Paul!
Learning from this man is magic, so informative and has a bit of a light hearted laugh along the way making it fun. Don't think most people realise the time and effort that goes into making these videos, many hours of work and devotion.
Ian - Paul gives me a warm and fuzzy “Bob Ross” vibe...
I am 70 and this is the first time that I have known why things are done instead of just copying. I love these tutorials.
Every time I compile my code, I hold my breath and when it works I say BOOM! I do hope this is not going be a lifetime problem for me :-)
I've been programming for 25 years. I still get scared when things work perfectly the first time.
Side note: Defensive programming is great but you gotta be experienced to gain an intuition, along with knowing if you should put the defensive code at the top (where the input happens) or bottom (where processing happens). There's no right answer, it depends on how you choose to architect it.
But some things, like displaying an LED on a board that only take Int values, with defined maximums and minimums... don't really need a defense against too big/wrong type. However, when user input is free, or other things can happen, definitely write defensively.
Hope you don't get smoke after the boom
Paul, I'm 81 and retired from the airline industry as a software engineer. Thank you for making learning and using Arduino so interesting and enjoyable.
Cool, thanks
what are you planning to do for the next century ?
@@unlowyer 💀
No Homework? Mashed up the last lesson (Potentiometers- dimmable LED) with this one - Instead of a dimming the LED - used the potentiometer to make the red LED blink from 0 to 10 times (analogRead of 0 = 0 blinks and 1023 = 10 blinks). Works! Thanks, Paul. Actually learning something.
I taught middle school for 10 years, the students would have loved you. You have a gift. Thanks for the lessons, I'll keep hitting the like buttons!
I agree. I taught Middle School for 32 years and I had a bunch of sixth graders who'd have eaten this up. I think the math equations might have been a stretch, but kids are so incredibly smart. They'd love it.
For loops just opened a whole new world of possibilities. Great lesson!! I can't believe there are people that dislike your videos. If they can't find it here, they must be searching for the wrong things.
Thanks a lot!
Today's comment Paul . I just realized how much difference there is in your videos when compared to the ones I used to watch. Other video presenters are either a: proving how much they know by zipping through each item thinking that speech speed indicates a vast subject knowledge or b: they expect the average newbie to remember everything that has been on screen minutes before. Both useless to me as I have a condition which affects short term memory. The fact that all info is on screen at the same time helps me an awful lot. I simply have to rewatch 2 -3 times before the subject matter sinks in. Thank you Paul for your efforts. They are very much appreciated.
Paul -- I am a retired aerospace engineer and have taken on the Arduino as a hobby. Thanks for the lessons -- I will eventually use it on my home flight simulator!
Your projects is what’s keeping my marriage together.
I’m spending more time watching you video then with my wife.
:)
Respect
Why does that keep you married?
Respect
Paul, I am 75 years old and still love learning something new. Your Arduino tutorials have provided inspiration and knowledge. Please add me to your notification list.
Every lesson is amazing itself! Every lesson has its funny nuances as "holding breath the program to work" or "happy little orange" and many other! Thank you so much, Paul, for your super lessons! I really appreciate you making them!
And, Yes, i holded my breath and it worked! :D Haha!
P.S. Forgive me, that i used blue LED in every situation! I won't do this mistake anymore!
couldn't hold my breath while yelling, "greater or equal to!"
Love your vidies!
nice work sir.
Since it is almost 1/4 of this course playlist I would like to share my results! I did these 15 videos in 2 days because the explanation and the video format are just on another level therefore it was very easy to learn. I really enjoyed every second of this course. In fact, I tried Arduino courses before but they were not as great as this course is. I treated Arduino as just a piece of hardware but I never understood the depth of its work. I never thought deeply about physics behind this. Maybe that is why I never felt confident in my Arduino skills. Now I feel much more confident and I have so much motivation! Thank you, Mr Paul McWhorter! Much love from Kazakhstan
LEGEND!
The little test at the start of this video with the blinking yellow and red light, It was the the first one i have done without looking back at something. Very Happy!
Thank you Paul. I'm watching every minute of every tutorial.
Hi Paul. Am enjoying your Arduino tutorials. I am using Tinkercad to simulate the practicals as I am at work in the middle of the Sahara Desert and do not travel with a box full of electronics in my bag.
Looking forward to working through the rest of the tutorials.
Hey Paul, 31 years old, thought I would learn this since it's always been a passion. With the information age, I am happy to be alive at this time, being able to educate yourself is very freeing.
PS. Always do my homework right after watching the video.
We are most definitely still watching my friend. Thanks and Semper Fidelis!
I apologize for not holding my breath the first time you compiled the code! I ran low on iced coffee and got distracted... :'(
Oh sorry 😔
I'm only 16 year old, and both learning better english and electronics by your lessons. Thanks for giving me a new hobby.
Four years later and i still held my breath with you! I'm so glad i found your tutorials. Thanks!
It's been 6 decades since using AS degree in "Electrical Technology". These videos are a great refresher for both the principles and coding (originally FORTRAN programming). Enjoying myself!
Yep, but dont you miss the old 'Go To' command, like goto 221, and it would jump to line 221. Wow, I miss those days. Programming has never been the same.
@@paulmcwhorter yeah, I felt very accomplished in those days. They say learning new things is great for maintaining cognition so enjoying new challenges. ICs versus soldering individual transistors, diodes, etc on boards one had to mask and etch is a whole new world. Starting to get the hang of "pins". PS Can't handle black coffee. My stomach has always objected! Two tablespoons of half and half per 12 oz cup and I'm with you!
@@paulmcwhorter 72 retired and used to program in Basic. Boy do I miss the goto statements. Now that I have learned them it seems to make it harder to learn to do without
Hello P
My name is Anne (male) living in the Netherlands, and 69 years of age. I worked in the medical divices and from the late 1980 I lost contact with the electronic-technics. Now I have time and am enjoying to be a student again with your tutorials .
Thanks!!
Paul: I am 80 years old and I have been an electrical engineer for 50 years in the aerospace industry. Thank you for these tutorials they are very helpful to me trying to learn more about programming. You are a very good teacher and remind me of some of the instructors I had in college - only better.
This is such an amazing series ! I'm glad you're one of those people that love to delve into the nitty gritty of stuff and show the mistakes you make so that we all can be more aware of those. So often people just blitz through these things.
I just decided to learn about pcb and breadboards I actually ordered some on Amazon and while I was ordering you came on RUclips and started teaching about circuit boards and I was like boom. Thank you
I really like your teaching style, "internally making errors", to show how to trouble shoot and if we can spot the errors before running the program........ . LOVE IT!!!!!
Shockingly im still hanging onto this educational series. Your a great instructor
I never used to like math and now after watching 15 of these videos I'm excited out about math which I never thought I would be I'm in my 50s and really enjoying every one of these videos thank you so much😊👍
Paul, thank you for these tutorials. I bet you didn't think that three years later these videos would still be being used. I have always wanted to get into building pcb and small electronics and programming as well. I tried some years ago but gave up because I didn't have anyone who could explain it this way. for loops are no mystery to me any longer. Thanks again.
Love the tutorials! I spent my career heading up IT and am having a blast learning about Arduino in my retirement. You are an EXCELLENT instructor and I am able to follow your lessons, have been able to build them all and have "invented" some on my own. Thank you so much!
Great to hear!
I have bought my Arduino 5 years ago, but it is first after I found your tutorials, I have got it to work. Hope to build and controle robots som day! Thanks!
i am so addicted to this arduino i completed 15 lessons in 2 days
Fabulous series! I am a Retired Building Controls Tech. I am learning the math after a career of just plugging numbers into a controller! This series is my 'stay-in-place' go-to sanity check. God is Good! Thanks Paul
I am having so much fun with these new Arduino lessons I'm looking forward to finishing the whole Arduino series!
hi Robert here 2023, just love your videos and are the only tutorials I depend on in the Arduino and the resources given are remarkable!
Thank you
Great to hear!
My name is Joseph, i am beginner in Arduino and i just discovered yuor lessons. Thank for sharing knowledge in your lessons, they are very, very informative, thank you Paul for your dedication :)
Holding my breath made this lesson fun and reminded me how deep breathing helps one to relax and lets stress flow away! Thank you for another great lesson!
Sir, I salute you! If I had a teacher like you when I had to go through all the programming classses, I probably would have liked it. I do now, that you for that! I love watching the tutorials, very clear, very informative. Again, my thanks!
Patience is rewarded. I found the "for" command online when I was looking for an easier way to repeat portions of a loop but I could not figure it out within a few minutes so I did not worry. I knew you would cover it and your explanation was very helpful. Thanks.
Hey Paul, I was looking for a good youtuber to code Arduino and I found you! You are the best Arduino teacher on youtube! Thank you for teaching me Arduino.
Glad to help!
I was asking myself how this 'for loop' was possible and now I have seen the light. Excellent thanks
Great!
I am watching over and over again to understand fully and clearly. You are a magic Paul. Thank you.
Wow, thank you
Recently retired engineer here. I love these tutorials! A lot of rust is getting scraped off of my brain
Oh, I meant to add, I am really enjoying these seminars!
Love the vids Paul! Im talking classes with Arduino in school, but sadly our teacher is no where near the teacher you are, you are a life saver!
Wow, thanks!
Thank you for these lessons! My son enjoys following your lessons. He wanted to leave this message: "Though I might not be the brightest bulb (and quite often on the dimmer side) the way Paul explains theese lessons really makes it so even the dimmest of us can understand. PS (now I know why I need algebra.)"
Let your son know this. The person that will succeed is the person who tries the hardest. You can not control how smart you are, but you can control how hard you work. The hardest working person will beat out the smartest person every time. Choose to be the hardest working person in the room, every time, and you will go far in life.
Thank you Mr. Mcwhorter. Great lesson and I'm taking notes, I want to learn this by heart. Your style of teaching is wonderful, I wish I had you as a teacher back when I was in school. Better late than never 😁
Nice video Paul, once you use a a loop (control structure) there is no going back
Legend says Paul McWhorter still hearts comments 2 years after video's released
He's written a For-loop for this
I have learned some python and octave before. It is quite amazing the link between different programming languages. It is always fun and learning.
Thank you for your work paul there's tons and tones of people wating for you ro upload new video everyday keep up the good work
That was great. Had some trouble with typing mistakes but got it sorted. It's interesting that most commentors are about 12 hours ahead of me. I am in Vancouver BC so I'm guessing that a lot of the comments are coming from England. I do this at about 7pm PST.
Thank you for today's lesson. I really liked how you put the curly clause symbols first, then you put the for with the two parenthesis, and then you declared the variable j, and then you populated the parenthesis's to tell it how to act by putting the declared value of j in the parenthesis, and the you put the condition, and then you incremented j by 1. By doing that you for the first time allowed me to understand the syntax of a for loop! Thank you!
I'm following all the classes and I can already do small projects on my own. Thank you so much for the lessons. They are simple to understand.
That certainly shortens the repeating lines, I was waiting for this lesson! Thanks again!
Hi Paul, I am making my way through al the tutorials and I'm so happy to find a presentor with easy to follow instructions. Especially I like the tip with the J instead of the i - many thanks! Am now saying happy little orange colour all the time ahaha.
I like the way he just genuinely writes pinmode‘s' just to teach us
Thanks Paul, I really enjoy the way to teaches. I am senior director of engineering in Semiconductor firm and although I learn all physics at the university, I admire the simple and clear way you explain the basics of semiconductors and conductivity. Since collage days were ~30 years ago you help me to sharpen up my pencil. Can't wait for your next video. Amazing Job!
Hi Paul. My wife asked me for a automatic plant watering system, and thanks to you she might get it some day cause your videos are great! Thanks a lot!
. . . and when the wife is happy, everybody is happy. Good luck with the project.
The homework assignments are great. They really help with knowing the material, instead of just following directions!! Thank You
Explaination of for loop is so clear! hats off to Mr.Paul McWhorter
be sure ..a lot of people waching your lessons...Chris from Athens,also a lot of my friends studyng your videos!! thanks you
Thanks. Figured it out. Appreciate the challenge of doing it on our own first. For an older guy, this is working out great.
ive had a cup of coffee every lesson as instructed.... 15 lessons in......
During this lesson the light finally came on I started understanding things from a new indifferent perspective. Thanks, so much Paul you are such a gifted teacher and I appreciate you and I do help a brother out thank you again. Retired Rev.
5/5 * I am a retro electronics component level repair technician (London, UK) and consider myself as an electronics enthusiast at 62. My goal is to try to get grips with modern electronics and get back to a design technician role which is probably very difficult at the current economic situation, but I do like a good challenge. Furthermore, I would like to assure you that you ARE doing a great job with your teaching method. I also find myself doing the assignments that you set at the end of some tutorials (and experiment with some tweaking of the code ... and like you I get immense pleasure when I see my attempt successful. I bought my kit some years back and went on a very thorough and complete course for Arduino (no names mentioned!) but lost interest some time down the road. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for rekindling my passion for modern electronics and programming combination. Please continue the great work. 5/5 *
I knew there was an easier way to to write the code for the blinking LED's Thank Paul. I'm loving these videos.
Glad to help
I can't believe I held my breath for real🤣🤣Great tutorial Mr Paul.
Thank you Paul, I am enjoying this and doing my homework. 69 year old retired
Completed the project, as we were progressing through video using LOOP function for 4 LEDs. Thanks
I’ve been waiting for For Loops since that homework assignment back in Lesson 3. So happy we made it!
Thank you for doing this. never thought id be able to do this till i stumbled upon you tutorial series.
Paul: When I was young I thought I'd be a computer science major and do computers for a living. I took one class in Pascal in college and I got totally turned off, and decided coding is just not for me. I became a music major instead. What was the issue? I spent around 15 hours in the computer lab trying to debug a program that wouldn't compile. Finally I realized: I had a lower case "l" instead of a 1.
But now you've gotten me back into programming, and I'm enjoying it! Thanks!
Thank you Paul for what you do. I've just started to take your course on how to succeed in an engineering career. your channel will keep me busy for months.
I didn't held my breath when you did it correctly the second time. But still these tutorials are fun and awesome.
i'm fairly happy to learn Arduino programming through your video...thank for all ! 02_2023
Thanks old timer for teaching me something that betters me as a person. Your awesome. looking forward to more input more input sorry I grew up in the 80s short circuit was one of my favorite movies as a kid.
Going through all videos. One or two every morning before work :-D Thanks a lot. It is nice to have some lessons like this online.
Here is my homework, had a bit of a different approach and accidently used digital pins :) these are amazing tutorials! thank you so much for your time and effort
int yPin=7;
int rPin=8;
int yCount = 0;
int rCount = 0;
int wait = 200;
void setup() {
pinMode(rPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(yPin, OUTPUT);
Serial.begin(9600);
}
void loop() {
if(yCount=5){
Serial.println("Yellow blinked 3 times, and then red blinked 5 times");
Serial.println("Resetting...");
delay(2500);
yCount=0;
rCount=0;
}
}
I know these videos are all a min of 20 min so why does it only feel like 5 minutes long? Thank you Paul for being so engaging and making this so much fun.
Glad you like them!
Absolutely watching them all and following. I rarely comment on RUclips but you need to know how good this course is
I love your method, You are a really successful teacher, it was 10 years that I hated learning C programming while I really need it. But by watching your tutorial videos, surprisingly I am learning C programming and I am so happy and more than thankful. I appreciate. Thank you Thank you Thank you
Paul is the Bob Ross of Arduino!
Hey Paul, I just came back to Arduino after several years away. I never got very far last time as most tutorials were "Do this, Do that." I can follow those and gained some knowledge, but wanted understanding, and got frustrated and set it aside. Your tutorials are giving me the understanding I was seeking both in the circuit design, components, and coding. Thanks much!
I am loving these tutorials. I have an electromechanical project that I am hoping to combine with Arduino programming.
You're the best, i'm currently doing a 2 Year Electrical Engineering Technician course and we have to do some programming and this helps a lot thank you :)
Cheers from Canada
I like the homework you give us to do. I often feel like my mind goes blank when you give us a project but once I get into Arduino I have to get creative remembering things and making it work. It's pretty fun.
Hello Paul
I'm following your excellent Arduino tutorials, they are the best ones I've seen so far. Thankyou for really taking the time to explain why you do things the way way you do.
Great to hear!
So my son was watching with me while I learned to program my Arduino and he made the comment that this guy is like the Bob Ross of Arduinos. And I thought that is the most accurate description of your videos I've heard. You take a complicated task and make it simple. I haven't done any programming since I took FORTRAN in college 25 years ago, but your series is bringing it all back. Keep up the good work!
I've done every single project from every video and have an absolute blast while watching your videos!!!
Thank you so much for this series !!!!
For loop has always been a bit complicated for me to use but NOT ANYMORE thanks to this tutorial 🙏
Happy to help!
"the bob ross of coding", always putting a positive perspective on things, so thank you for making so many in depth, but fun tutorials, keep being awesome =)
These lessons always put me in a better mood. Thanks for the great lesson!
I am really happy to find you as an Arduino Code explainer. Such a great teacher you are. Your explanation is so easy and understandable. Thanks for sharing.
So much fun, excited for whats to come!
I obtain almost the same effect with: int i;
int Rosu=8;
int pauza=500;
int z;
void setup() {
// put your setup code here, to run once:
pinMode(Rosu, OUTPUT);
Serial.begin(9600);
}
void loop() {
// put your main code here, to run repeatedly:
while (i < 5) {
// Your code here
if (z=5){
digitalWrite(Rosu, LOW);
digitalWrite(Rosu, HIGH);
delay(pauza);
Serial.println (i);
digitalWrite(Rosu, LOW);
delay(pauza);
i += 1;
}
z=1;
}
Thank you for the lessons. Very, very good. I/m an MD, so I have not idea about electronics. I discovered your channel. A great pleasant surprise
Excellent!
Great tutorials, Paul! Hooked a brother up and purchased the kit for my nephews for Christmas!
Bam !! another one nailed. slowly progressing my way through .... uk, senior guy.