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Bravo Sparkfun! They are the group that I hold most responsible for reigniting my interest in programming, which eventually led me into a happy career in softwa
by rhombocombus 8y ago
Bravo Sparkfun! They are the group that I hold most responsible for reigniting my interest in programming, which eventually led me into a happy career in software development. Their projects, products, and educational materials helped me see the real world effects of code, and I am really grateful that I found them and learned from them.
- dylan604 8y agoI give them credit for the other side of the coin. After programming for a while, I credit SparkFun for getting me interested and back into hardware. With all of the very affordable micro-controllers and various shields/kits, it's so much fun designing the circuits, building it, and then writing the code to make it function. However, I'm still at the stage of when it's all assembled and code being written and it doesn't work, I have to decide if it's just bad programming, bad hardware/circuit assembly, or just flat out bad circuitry design. Way more debugging than just figuring out what line I forgot to use a semi-colon or where I reassigned a variable's value etc. With all of that experience, I have even more respect for people like Woz. I have online forums to ask questions. The "grey beards" just had to figure it out ;-)