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I am an habitual inhabitor of the Arduino forum and have some good help there but nobody seems to be able to direct me to a good tutorial to teach the coding side from beginner upwards. In particular learning to code for text scrolling is of immediate interest. Any advice would be appreciated.

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I personally would learn the fundamentals in C code and follow a tutorial on that. Once you have basic programming knowledge you should be able to apply that in different languages and ultimately start programming for your Arduino. – Adam Waite Oct 15 '12 at 9:53
Thanks Adam I will do that – Peter Newman Oct 16 '12 at 6:00
Yes I have seen the Adafruit tutorials thanks embedded .kyle but they seem more geared to selling their products, but hey that the free market economy :) – Peter Newman Oct 16 '12 at 6:03
I am watching the New Boston C# videos thanks Conrad C they seem well presented and free. Thanks for the link. – Peter Newman Oct 16 '12 at 6:05

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Adafruit has around two dozen tutorials on learning to program Arduinos. When you say "code for text scrolling", I'm not sure if you mean on a PC, in which case check out Lesson 4 about the serial library. Or on an LCD, in which case check out the LCD tutorials.

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I think know what you mean. First you need to learn How to program well. Pick a language (I suggest you C#), then you'll understand how to program the arduino better. This website is good for learning a kinds of programming langues. I've learned C++ at University but I was also watching this. The new boston which helped me a lot.

And yes ADAfruit has good tutorials.

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You need to make your link more specific to the topic at hand; as it is, it makes your answer look like spam. – Dave Tweed Oct 15 '12 at 20:02

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