A little rant about the beginner's tutorials for the Arduino:<p>I'm trying (or was trying) to get into the Arduino/electronics stuff but by far my biggest problem is not the super easy subset of C++ they use in their IDE (hell, most of the time you don't need pointers) but the electronics stuff.<p>Pushdown/Pullup/Voltage dividers, RC circuits, etc. All that fundamental electronics stuff is never discussed in depth. They give you a circuit schematic with let's say a voltage divider and a temperature sensor and tell you: "That's the schematic and that's how you do it. That thing on the left is called a voltage divider. It divides voltage. And now for the hard part: for-loops and Serial.println()"<p>Is there no beginner stuff for people who know how to code but are puzzled by the electronics part? Where they explain you why you have to put a voltage divider into the circuit and what it exactly does.<p>Maybe I'm just ultra stupid and all the other people reading those tutorials get an instant grasp of the circuits used and are really hold back by for-loops and curly braces. Or my method is just wrong and I shouldn't try to understand everything. Just copy circuits found on the internet and be happy?<p>(Yes, I'm reading electronics textbooks - sadly they are not that easy to understand for casual learning on the weekends.)