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Table of Contents

  1. Getting started
  2. How to find answers to questions
  3. How to ask for help
  4. Help others

Getting started

If you are completely new to mbed, the best place is to start on the handbook Homepage. Take the tour to get a quick overview of what mbed is all about, and then you can follow the rest of the Getting Started guides.

How to find answers to questions

You can get answers to most common questions by Searching the mbed website.

Places you may find answers to your questions:

  • Handbook - What you are reading now. The 'official' source for information, created and maintained by the mbed team
  • Cookbook - The place for user contributed documentation
  • Notebooks - The place for user contributed notes and how-to's which may be useful
  • Forum - See if your question has been asked before
  • If you'd like to speak to the mbed team - just email us at support@mbed.org and we'll get back to you as soon as possible

How to ask for help

If you can't find the answer you're looking for, please don't hesitate to post in the appropriate part of the Forum. mbed users are a friendly bunch and will be pleased to help you.

How to ask for help with code

A good way to get help with a piece of code that's not working for you is to Publish the program. To do this, right click the program in the Compiler and choose Publish. Include the URL returned in your post.

This way users can very easily check over your complete program and therefore help you better.

Help others

mbed is all about making rapid protyping easy and fun. To do this, we need to help each other. Ways to contribute back to the community include:

Answering questions in the Forum

If you have something to add, or can help answer a question, please do. Remember your answer will be preserved and will be useful to many more people who read the forum topic later.

Creating and maintaining cookbook pages

If you have got a new component working or would like to share your knowledge on a topic, please start a cookbook page on the topic. Don't worry about it being perfect from the beginning, just try and get the facts down. Example published programs or diagrams are great, too.

Examples of good cookbook pages:

If you see a cookbook page which could do with improvement, dive in and fix it!

Notebook pages

If you would like to write about a project you are working on or would simply like to share your working notes, create a Notebook page.

Examples of good notebook pages:

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