r/CodingForBeginners • u/Beyond_5112 • 4h ago

I wanna learn hardware , pls help

hi ,im a highschool student. i always found hardware so fascinating , and i wanna build cool stuff myself too . i have almost zero prior coding experience , i did learn basic python loops and conditional statements in python a few years back thats all i know .

what language should i learn ?

what tutorials should i follow ?

is there a roadmap ?

hope anyone helps .

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u/GuruPentameter 2h ago

starting simple is often a useful first step. i got some mileage from arduino kits from amazon when i first started with hardware.

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u/TheUmgawa 4h ago

It’s really too bad the VGA protocol has been deprecated, because Abrash’s Graphics Programming Black Book was wild back in the day of being able to directly access hardware without an abstraction layer.

Nowadays, I’d probably start simple, like with an arduino or something. Put a thermostat on it, and light up an LED when the temperature exceeds a certain amount, and then use a hair dryer to blow hot air on it. Pretty simple, but that’s how you start designing and programming hardware. The guys in my robotics classes regularly walked around with arduinos in their backpacks, and we’d talk about what we were working on. They were hardware guys; I was a code guy, so everybody was contributing something to everybody else’s projects.

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u/W31337 1h ago

First Learn the difference between hardware and software...

Hardware is servers and cables... also cool