Hi everyone,

TL;DR Completely new to coding and programming, but I want to learn enough to be able to run a home server, my own website and tinker a bit with Arduino. Is there any programming language or path that you could recommend?

I don’t know if those things are related or not. I’ve been looking at books a bout Arduino, but it’s just following instructions to do xyz, but not explanation of the basics.

About the server and website, I’ve wanted to try it out since I stumbled upon the Low tech magazine. Many of the projects there and the philosophy behind it speak to me, so I would like to be more knowledgeable about it and be able to do some stuff myself.

EDIT. You guys are awesome! Thank you so much for the replies. It’s so cool to see Lemmy populated with cool people willing to chat and put knowledge in common :) I might be updating this post when I get to do something about… well all the resources you gave me!

  • Beardedleftist@lemmy.mlOP
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    9 months ago

    My brother-in-law gave me a Raspberry P1, so I might be able to do something! I’ll be checking those communities, thank you!

    As for Arduino, I bought years ago an Arduino Super (?), but it doesn’t have wifi nor bluetooth is it essential, or I could use this one? I’ll have a look at those sensors. It came with a little screen, so I might be able to do some of that!

    Probably because of my background I’m used to learning and understanding something before getting my hands dirty, so to speak. This might prove as a good chance to try another approach. Thank you!

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Your Arduino not having Bluetooth or WiFi is fine (obviously depending on what you want to do with it). Arduinos are for much lower level projects than PIs. Where a PI might run a webserver, an Arduino might just start and stop things based on timers.

    • CameronDev@programming.dev
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      9 months ago

      No wifi is fine, my first arduino was a regular one, but I’ve found that its kinda limited. Making an LED blink is a bit dull. But given it has a screen, you can probably display the sensor data on it, so its probably worth starting with it? Like i said, parts are inexpensive, so upgrading later is a recompile away.