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Learning C for Arduino

You're reading from   Learning C for Arduino A comprehensive guide that will help you ace C's fundamentals using the powerful Arduino board

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787120099
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Syed Omar Faruk Towaha Syed Omar Faruk Towaha
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Our First Program! 3. Exploring C with Arduino IDE 4. Blinking with Operations and Loops 5. Functions and Files with Arduino 6. Arduino and C++ 7. Using Pointers and Structure 8. Working with Arduino Libraries 9. Lets Build Something Awesome 10. Few Error Handlings

Understanding OOP better


I know you've probably got a little bit of a headache if you are not familiar with the concept of OOP. Don't worry-keep reading and the idea of OOP will be clear to you soon. Let's start clarifying the situation by looking at an example involving functions.

Imagine a situation where you need to write the following print statements:

Serial.println("My name is John, I am 24 years old and my height 6.1 feet"); 
Serial.println("My name is Tom, I am 26 years old and my height 6.5 feet"); 
Serial.println("My name is Curl, I am 21 years old and my height 5.9 feet"); 

Have you noticed something in this code? The lines are almost similar. The only differences are the names, the age, and the height.

I know what you are thinking: We can make a function with three parameters like the following:

void myFunction(String name, int age, float height) { 
  Serial.println("My name is "); 
  Serial.print(name); 
  Serial.print(", I am "); 
  Serial.print...
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