Help Getting Started with Arduino and Python

[benfriesen]

Hello,

I am just trying to get started with arduino programming and a bit of python. Does anybody have a good way to get started with it?

Thanks in advance for your help

 

[BrightCandle]

From what I have seen the Arduino has a C compiler and that is about it. You can only use Python for talking to a program that is already running on Arduino, you can't use Python running on the device itself, its too memory constrained for that.

 

[ringtail]

Here's a real nice little primer on Python

Here's a whole bunch of Python tutorial stuff.

So there's some of the help you requested. Happy reading!

 

[Dratickon]

If you're just starting out with Python, I'd personally recommend Learn Python The Hard Way. Although it doesn't really go into the advanced aspects of Python, the book/exercises let you progress as quickly as you want until you reach a point where you're confident in being able to play with and figure things out on your own (or with the help of Google).