No I didn't mean to imply that it was. What I have found is that If I get into a richer environment I learn more. The examples don't make a lot of sense sometimes and I "think" that If I had a chance to 'play' with them they might make more sense. The Book sort of "mothers" you in taking you through the code. The Arduino doesn't and at least for me finding out what I did or didn't do becomes a great deal more difficult with the Arduino IDE... Line numbers would be great. I had a missing semicolon on a variable declaration before a large comment block for example and the compiler marked a comment as the offending line. It would make some things easier I think. Changing the font is a sop to my age and vanity and the idea that I don't want glasses again, I wore them for 50 years before I got cataracts and had my lenses replaced, Serif fonts are hard for me to see. After all the good comments I will give it a try. Thank you one and all for the great response.
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