The Arduino IDE is the interface where you will write the sketches that tell the board what to do. Integrated Development Environment(IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. An IDE normally consists of at least a source code editor, build automation tools and a debugger.
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You can choose between the Installer (.exe) and the Zip packages. We suggest you use the first one that installs directly everything you need to use the Arduino Software (IDE), including the drivers.
After clicking the download page, you’ll be directed to this web page shown in the above figure. Select the options among these for Windows/mac OS. After clicking the option, such options will be seen.
Click on the Just Download option, and you’ll see this at your downloading section.
Proceed with further installation as shown.
This process will extract and install all the required files to execute properly the
Arduino Software (IDE).
Once you open the IDE, this is how the actual window of Arduino looks like.