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Hi I just ordered an Arduino Mega and Rover chassis kit and will be assembling it soon. I have been researching and reading about these devices alot to learn. I cant seem to find much information for the compatible programming languages and whether there are any compatible GUI interfaces for beginners.

Can Arduino use any kind of GUI programmer or Visual studio, Robotics Developer Studio, or any other kind of software besides the Arduino Sketch program?

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Hi cjg1984,

Welcome to the RobotShop Forum. Arduino (the programming language) is actually very user friendly for beginners. If you want a higher level language, consider C. There does not seem to have been any extensive work to make Arduino compatible with MRDS, though if you look online you may be able to find something. There are instructions as to how to use Arduino with Visual Studio.

Hope this helps,