The Arduino Integrated Development Environment (IDE) provides a source code editor and ability to upload your program to a usb attached board
Beyond the Arduino IDE, there are additional development tools and plugins for existing IDE platforms.
Arduino programming is done using C++ which is compiled using compiled for the platform using the Arduino IDE
Each Arduino program will have a minimum of void setup()
and void loop()
functions:
void setup() { // comments statements; } void loop() { statements; }