Development of Prototype with Arduino

I had booked out an Arduino and made progress in understanding the Arduino and it's language.

I started by going through the learning section of the Arduino website. I went through every step of the Basics section. What this achieved, was a much greater understanding of using the Arduino and the code itself. I was also constantly referring to the Reference page as this had a key to explain terms such as:

setup () {

}

loop () {

}

Before going through this, the terms above meant nothing to me, I now understand that 'setup' is a function that organises code before running the 'loop' function which is basically the main program which loops. 

Once I began to understand the code a little more, I began asking questions to what I could change to actually make the Arduino do more than the example code. The first example that was successful was the DelayBlink example, which I got to blink multiple times at different times. Here's the code for that:

After achieving that, I began doing other things like getting it to light up connected LED's and changing which specific one to flash. For example, if I had an LED connected to port 6, I just changed the setep() to say:

void setup() {

   pinMode(6, OUTPUT);

{

This was an important to my development I believe as this broke the boundary between reading code to creating code and understanding what I was doing.

I did achieve other changes in code, unfortunately I did not save these changes or document them because of my excitement.

Links used for learning and research:

http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/HomePage

http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/HomePage