Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Under Mac OS X, the installation of the application consists only of dragging the application icon to the Applications folder of your computer."

A block of code is set as follows:

void setup() {
  pinMode(transistorBase, OUTPUT);
  // Init serial communication
  Serial.begin(9600);
}

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "You'll have to go to Control Panel and locate Device Manager."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.