Some help with Jargon busting / understanding the CLI please

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@Julian There’s a few cool features about the CLI!

Let’s make things simple here and really it’s not too complicating :smile:

  1. the CLI is like what its name suggest…a command line tool

  2. You can do things like:

  • Write your program on your IDE, maybe let’s say Arduino Processing and use send the file to :spark: cloud for compilation into a binary file which can in turned be used to download to the core
  • Use a pre-compiled binary file to flash into the core. (maybe you want to mass program 10 cores and you have a binary already compiled and this make it easier than to click 10 times on the WebIDE
  • Monitor variables and save them in a file!
  • Repair a core that had a bad key and cannot communicate with the cloud
  • and more :smile:

Give it a try: https://community.spark.io/t/tutorial-spark-cli-on-windows/3112

and i’m sure you will have a better understanding!

Keep asking and you will learn more! I’m sure many are here to help answer anything and everything. :smile:

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