[clue] Budding SW Engineers

[David L. Willson]

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I took three of my boys to the "Intro to Arduino" class last summer. At $125 each for class and kit, it's a fantastic value and tremendous fun. 

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David L. Willson 
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This is a good time for a r3volution. 

----- Original Message -----

> My son and I are heading to the Mini-bot class this Sunday. They also
> have introductory classes on the Arduino. The neat thing is taking
> this simple controller and turning out physical projects.

> Dan

> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Stephen Queen < svqueen at gmail.com >
> wrote:

> > On 5/8/12, lsawyer at scsdenver.com < lsawyer at scsdenver.com > wrote:
> 
> > > With all this talk of programming, it has sparked more from the
> > > interest
> 
> > > I've had over the last couple of years. I'm just wondering if
> > > there
> > > are
> 
> > > books anyone knows of that can teach in a entertaining manner.
> > > Perhaps by
> 
> > > creating fun little programs one can use immediately. Perhaps
> > > some
> > > type of
> 
> > > cookbook of "Choose which program interests you most" and learn
> > > along the
> 
> > > way type of training. Similar to some old electronics kits you
> > > could buy at
> 
> > > Radio Shack. This would not only be more enjoyable (compared to
> > > the
> > > many
> 
> > > boring beginner books), but also give immediate purpose to
> > > someone
> > > who
> 
> > > doesn't have a lot of free time, and when free time is available,
> > > would like
> 
> > > to spend it doing something fun. Anyone have any thoughts? I'm
> > > interested in
> 
> > > C# (Java), Pearl, but don't really have a preference on which
> > > language. Just
> 
> > > need to learn some techniques, what are Classes, Functions and
> > > other Object
> 
> > > Oriented things I always hear about, that sound important.
> 
> > >
> 
> > If you just want to have some fun, look at getting and programming
> > an
> 
> > Arduino board. Check out sparkfun.com The language is unique to the
> 
> > Arduino, but is designed to be easy to learn. There are all kinds
> > of
> 
> > fun projects you can find to learn from.
> 

> > It won't teach you OOP, but you'll get some of the basics and have
> > fun
> 
> > while your doing it.
> 

> > Steve Queen
> 

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