"Getting Started" is not getting me started.

RE: "Getting Started" is not getting me started.

JesperWe — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:11:40 GMT

[quote userid="25682" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/32723/getting-started-is-not-getting-me-started/126106"]Were you referring to the getting started guide in the Nordic Infocenter? I agree that it is slightly outdated & will mention this to the team.[/quote]

Yes. I think you will benefit from updating it. Save your new users a few hours of frustration...

RE: "Getting Started" is not getting me started.

Bjørn Kvaale — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:04:51 GMT

This tutorial could be a good starting point. It is based on the ble_app template project. This is a good example to start with if you want to start from scratch.

Were you referring to the getting started guide in the Nordic Infocenter? I agree that it is slightly outdated & will mention this to the team.

I agree that it is a good idea to explore the examples folder (in addition follow the infocenter documentation for testing the examples).

Support for custom boards is mentioned briefly at this link. We recommend all new people to start with segger embedded studio if they do not have a Keil license because SES is free to use for Nordic SDK users, while Keil costs quite a lot if you go over the code size limit. My recommendation would be to use SES, check out the Youtube video tutorial if you have not already & start with the template example you mentioned.

RE: "Getting Started" is not getting me started.

JesperWe — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 10:38:14 GMT

Thanks a lot for the tip on SDK versions.

[quote userid="8471" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/32723/getting-started-is-not-getting-me-started/125869"]AFAIK can only be done the hard way[/quote]

Not true. Just for fun you can for example look up STM32CubeMX when you take a coffe break some time.

RE: "Getting Started" is not getting me started.

Keton — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 11:13:20 GMT

My suggestion would be to explore `examples` folder, find something interesting and just open its *.uvprojx file with caveat that until Keil database updates you'll have to install this first.

Compile and play with it, then explore how Keil project is set up and adapt it for your own needs. You'll need to know a lot of Nordic SDK specific things to set up a project completely from scratch.

And if you want to have a better experience consider using SDK14.2 and apply patches for issues described here. SDK 15.0 is very new and I'll take some time for the community to discover if it has bugs and develop fixes.

As for difficult experience this is the same for all embedded/C software you'll have to exceed critical mass of project specific knowledge and this AFAIK can only be done the hard way - by experimenting, doing your own projects and reading source code of the parts you want to know best.