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| thinkfat:
Guys, instead of harping on "software guys" who apparently never even know the hot from the cold of a tool, imagine me chuckling over old school EEs who struggle to get a GPS receiver talk to their micro controller. Or even make an LED blink with an Arduino sketch :-) It's really hard to be an expert in all corners of such a broad playing field. |
| pcprogrammer:
Yes that is true. Being an all rounder is not easy. Knowing your short comings is too. Best to be open to learning new things, but also know when to give in. |
| eti:
People are SO binary and simplistic in their judgements of TOTAL STRANGERS. He may be a "software guy" to whomever happens across his videos, but NO ONE knows what he knows, nor his experience in myriad fields. He may have been employed in a software role, but ya know, human beings can know MORE than one skill, and just because he ain't made a career out of it... :palm: ::) yeah... carry on judging. |
| PlainName:
Are we, perhaps, missing the point of the video? It's not about a bloke showing off how brill (or not) he is - as people have pointed out, you can easily view the quality of the products he wrote. AFAICS, the video is to help along someone who wants to get into programming micros. I suspect that 99.5% of the users on here, and almost certainly 100% of the participants of this thread, are not the target audience. Cut'n'pasting off the web is a perfectly good way to start. You don't want an 'obtuse code for dummies' roadhump to put people off, and this is just the 2000's version of the 1980's copying a listing out of a magazine. He is just showing how easy it can be, and giving the steps for someone starting out to actually have a go and get hooked. Similarly, cross-compiling and debugging is the way to go. Maybe you don't have a Pi, or you won't be using them later. If you've learned how to install some crappy tools on it and then make coffee while it builds and compiles, you'll be stuck when you're trying to program a ATTiny or similar. OTOH, cross-compiling by default is a transferable skill to pretty much anything. Further, I bet the Pi doesn't have a fraction of the OS tools I use all the time when writing code. Or, in fact, working out what code to write, and where it is, how to safely maintain it, etc. Does it have Listary for a start? I can tell you: no. So why not take advantage of the system you use all the time to do this stuff? Windows, Linux or Mac - whichever floats your boat, but the point is that wearing your comfortable shoes instead of clumping around in too-small clogs is surely better. That LED, though... really bad. I think he was being a bit too clever there. |
| fourfathom:
We can say he gave bad advice for driving the LED. And that's about it. |
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