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WHY  PROGRAM ?..............................Access to good career paths at all skill levels worldwide.

PROGRAMMER MULTI-MILLIONAIRES ?...............Elon Musk, Markus Persson, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Larry Ellison, Satashi Nakamoto, etc.

WHAT  IS  THE ARDUINO?.....................A circuit board of inputs and outputs centred on a central silicon microchip with a clock and tiny switches responding to the signals from words and symbols typed into your computer. The signals transmitted from the computer via a USB are arranged in a language C++ used to write Microsoft and Facebook and can be learned from the Arduino Website. Where there are many projects and an Arduino Community.

WHAT DOES THE ARDUINO DO ?...............It teaches the basics of programming. No toy! Two Arduinos could operate Willy Wonker's Chocolate Factory leaving Oompah Loompas plenty of free time to torment bad kids. A chocolate factory may be a wonk too far so we will build a simple "bread board" circuit including two LED light bulbs which we will program to light for given periods. Remembering these could be conveyors or chocolate melting pots.

WHAT IS A PROGRAM ?.........A coded sequence  of symbols and commands interpreted by a microprocessor in order to command and control procedures in a process. You are given a simple program to demonstrate the lighting process. Eventually you will need to write your own programs to control processes. Think what your program is meant to do then make a block flow diagram of all tasks and feedback loops involved. This is called an ALGORITHM. Then write the procedures and feedbacks in language code as a program.