I first used the Arduino example programs to make the LED blink and turn off when pushing the button. After a few online articles and a tutorial video or two I was able to modify the program to make the LED:

Push the button

one second on

one second off

one second on

one second off

five seconds on

five seconds off

constant on until the button is pushed

I am sure this is not to impressive, but I was very happy to achieve creating this simple program, since I have zero programming experience. There was a lot of fiddling with the code to get everything just right. I did appreciate the checking feature to debug the code. button_blinkmodify.ino

I skimmed the data sheet PDF more than read it. I read the first 5 pages and it made little to no sense to me, my comprehension shrank as I progressed until it was pointless to continue. Hopefully as we progress throughout the next eight weeks this paper will make more sense. Learning by reading has never been my strong suit, and this document seemed like it was written in a foreign language, more background and foundation is needed in order to made the acronyms and technical data not sound like gibberish.

Again following the Providence tutorials I started the hello echo C program, after a quick rewrite by Blair in Detroit to better match the mac os the programming was very simple and straight forward I was able to see the echo back. At this time I am not quite sure what the purpose of this is, but I am sure it will become clear as we progress.