Question about the tools menu in the arduino IDE

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What do each of these programmer types mean and which one should I be using?

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which one should I be using?

Which Arduino are you trying to program? Are you not using the USB cable?

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Arduino uno with USB cable

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Arduino uno with USB cable

Then you don't need a programmer, and you don't need to select any option.

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I don't think it's possible to unselect the option

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I don't think it's possible to unselect the option

It only matters if you actually use a programmer. Then, you need to have selected the right one. There is a matching option on one of the other menus that says to use a programmer.

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So nothing will change if I change the programmer but am still using an arduino uno with usb cable?

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arduinoelizabeth:
So nothing will change if I change the programmer but am still using an arduino uno with usb cable?

Correct.

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thank you so much!

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When you get into burning a bootloader onto a virgin AVR chip, or wanting to program the AVR without using the bootloader ... then specific programmers will come into play. Till then, don't worry about it.