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Meet the REPL

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Meet the REPL

- [Instructor] So far, communication with the Circuit Playground Express has been one way. We've written programs, saved them, and watched them run. But it turns out that the Circuit Playground Express board can also communicate back through USB to your desktop. This serial communication also enables an interactive mode called a REPL, which stands for read, evaluate, print loop. Using the REPL, you can easily experiment with CircuitPython without uploading a program. You can access the serial connection several ways but there's a CircuitPython package for Atom that makes it easy. Let's go to the desktop to acquaint ourselves with the serial connection and the REPL. We'll start out by opening up Atom and making it full screen. You can see that we have our Circuit Playground Express connected and it's using the speed up link program. The first thing I need to do is install the CircuitPython package so that we can…

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