No, Eli, justtellmethebestprogramminglanguagetolearn.
Oh, then I getmigraine, andfor a while I'vebeensayingverysnarkycomments, anditallgoesdownhillfromthere.
Sothebigthingthat I wantyoutounderstandisgenuinelywhen I saythereare a tonofprogramminglanguages, I'm notsayingthere's a tonofprogramminglanguages, youknow, whenintheentireschemeofprogramminglanguages.
Thisisoneofthebiggestissues I havewithnewbies, especiallyfolksthatyouknowdon't code.
Don't doanythingisifyouhaveabsolutelynoproblemsaresolvedandbevery, verydifficulttotellyouwhatyoushouldtrytolearnbecauseyou'renotactuallyplayingaroundwithanythingagain, as I saywithmylittleareweknowprojects, right?
Sowe'regonnabekeeppickingupthewrongone.
That's whereisit?
That's it, right?
As I'vebeendoing, thesearen't weknowprojects, right?
Sowe'llbedoingmoreofthese.
We'regoingtodo a videoshortly.
Andsothere's a littleArduino, youknow, Andsothisiswhat's called a microcontroller.
Soyoucanattachsensorsto a oryoucanhaveittriggerphysicalactionsliketurningonfans, turnonthepumps, thattypeofthing.
Andsowhat I wanttodois I wanttocreate a wholelittleinfrastructureusingtheseBasicallycreatedan I o.
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Infrastructure.
Sosince I knowwhat I wanttodo, I wanttoputtemperaturesensors.
I wantputhumiditysensors.
I wannaputmoisturesensors.
I wanttodothat.
And I wantthosetobeabletoprogramit.
Cleatriggerphysicalactionsthathappen.
Waterpumpstoturnonfanstoturnonthattypeofthing.
I haveanideaofwhatproblem I wanttosolveon.
Soit's prettyeasytolearnlanguagesagain.
Uh, theartery.
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Usingwhat's calledanArduino i d.
Inordertocodeforthisbasicallyuses a derivativeof C.
Andthenwhenitsendsthatto a server, youneed a language.
Youneed a scriptuptheretobeabletotakethatpostdata, beabletoreaditandthenbeabletodosomethingsuchasputinto a databaseorwhatever.
Sowithme, I needwhat's called a serversidescriptinglanguage.
Inordertodothat, I alreadyknowPHPlikepHbeso I'llusePHPforthat, then, inordertoactuallyputtheinformationto a databasesoPHPcantakethePostdata, butthenithastowriteitsomewhere.
Andso, inordertowriteitsomewhere, I wanttowriteitinto a mysequeldatabasetable.