Is it a good start to electronics/electricity/EE?

Is it a good start to electronics/electricity/EE?
You also learn C/C++ in process

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Start with discrete components on a breadboard. Cheaper to replace when you inevitably break them.

yes its what every single college or university will use to teach you if its relevant
theyre cheap enough to buy or let you take home (some schools also sell them)

the syntax is also incredibly dare i say BASIC
also this but arduinos are better for software
i never had to use a breadboard but they are good

>learn C/C++
you don't though. at least I didn't; I got too used to relying on the Arduino shortcuts and then when I went to implement some actually useful embedded projects using a nucleo board it was a shock to see how much more you could do by setting registers manually.
so i second learn from the ground up, start with learning basic digital systems and progress from there

If you don't understand the fundamentals you will do dumb things like leaving pins floating or breaking them with excessive current. If you really want to start with ICs, at least start with simple ones like 7400 series logic.

The Arduino is just a dev board for whatever microcontroller is on that particular model. You can still interface with everything directly without using the Arduino libraries.

I'd still recommend doing it all on a breadboard though, at least at first.

no. Because arduino is so widespread and accessible there are vastly more misleading resources than actually useful ones. You're not really learning C/C++ if you use the "Arduino language." Atmel and GCC both have compilers that target the AVR architecture.

first time I used arduino in college was 3rd year and we were required to use AVR assembly

im retarded with programming and electricity, but have never had any issues with these
if youre worried (about breaking any tech you own), search sites like youtube for "ways to break an ardunio" or "ardunio virsus"
the virus being something like doing that and them just calling it one

My first real exposure to programming was an Arduino at age 12. I only got into electronics a couple years later.
I feel like it's a great way to gauge if a kid is interested in technology/programming. Having some text show up on screen is boring, but making LEDs blink or making a robot follow a line while playing a song is fun. It won't teach them anything deep, but they'll be entertained while learning the basics (variables, functions, control flow).

you're retarded in general