Use C++ to Blink an LED on a Raspberry Pi in Under 5 Minutes!

Basic steps to install it:
cd WiringPi
./build debian
cd debian-template

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[wolflarson]

Man I wish I was ten years old and found you. I gave up my “IT” / “programming “ career at age 19 having a hard time with the calculus. While I have been fine, just realize how much I enjoyed that time. Bless you - this seems sort of a “giving back” so keep it up!

[martyb]

I like this format. I also like your longer format. Very interesting video!

[xero]

Definitely do more of these. I have list of small projects on YT that I go to when I get board just to play around with. Simple cheap little things to just spend a lazy Sunday playing and tweaking around with.

[wasdaletimelapse]

It is definitely comforting to see that even a seasoned professional like you still makes mistakes at such a basic level. It gives me confidence in my own very basic abilities. Thanks for sharing, and yes these short videos are great. Lets try and get back to some more addressable LED stuff.

[andymilstead]

Man, I love this! Even love how you left the mistakes in there and included tracking them down and fixing them as part of the video. Even a 5 minute video! I certainly cast my vote for more of these. So, so many tutorial type videos are horribly inefficient with either lots of dead air or constant jokes/silliness that distract from the main learning objective.

[josefmazzeo]

Dave - AWESOME! Yes, definitely do more of these between your usual vlogs! I like how you kept it real with on the fly debugging and typos. My C++ routine returns a "high five" ! 👏

[mikemcculley]

I love the colors, fonts, and effects on the terminal.

[delugeia]

Short or long format, I love it when you code live! Your ESP32 addressable LED series is what hooked me on your channel and started me on my favorite hobby.

[oliverw.douglas]

32-years ago, while attending our local community college, I had the joy of revisiting traditional Basic, before migrating to Assembly (via Masm), C++, & even a little Fortran.

My original experience with Basic started back in the early 1980's with Commodore PETS. Our Grade School eventually upgrade to VIC-20's, then 64's, & finally 128's. Fun experiences to be sure.

[KeithCooper-Albuquerque]

I loved this video! As an old C++/UNIX/LINUX programmer, this brought back fond memories. I think I'll fire up my Linux box and run VI!

[brandonboschx]

I hope this gets a lot of views. I would love to see more of this!

[ibewatchinu]

Never got into C++ on the Pi, now I know what I'm doing this weekend.

[meneerjansen]

For me as an amateur/hobbyist in my fifties starting w/ C programming it was very encouraging to see that even a very seasoned programmer like you made mistakes and typo's in his code. You appeared not be be impressed or discouraged by error messages. Instead you seemed to be familiar with encountering them and handled them as if it was nothing special. Everybody makes mistakes.

Keep these short programming sessions coming!

[ut]

1. No BS on this channel - right into the code! Makes me want to set this up and write the same program in C with printf, etc., like I did 40 years ago!
2. I need to see if Dave has a “how to install a Linux-ish OS on a Raspberry Pi in 5 minutes” video…
3. Do you guys see the simulated amber CRT scan lines on his terminal? SO COOL!
4. Would love the follow-up to show us the EASY way to use Visual Studio Code and SSH - that sounds like an AWESOME combo. Amazing - having a little itty bitty Arduino acting as the SERVER to a 4GHz modern client workstation.
Loving this! Thank, you Dave for producing this content, sir.

[josefmazzeo]

Love the retro atmosphere down to the clickety clack of the "IBM keyboard". It reminds me of my first job out of college in the late 1980s. Our first PCs we got in the office had monochrome amber screens (some had green)....so retro! I used my first graphics program on Windows 2.0 on an amber screen - when we went to full color a year later it felt so luxurious.

[RamonInNZ]

Definitely passing onto my Raspberry Pi newbie students at the university I work at as a teaser and intro to 'C' on the RPi - thanks Dave!

[matt_b...]

Direct, to the point, informative.... what's this doing on YouTube?? :-)

[igortumbas]

Oh man! The last line of C++ I wrote would have been in 1999! Thanks for re-introducing me to this wonderful programming language!

[yce]

Love the terminal session effects! I need to find that now. Brings back old memories. Thanks!

[robcfg]

Nice format and nice tutorial! Also love your use of cool-retro-term, it looks awesome! :D