I want to use this as my on-ramp to learning micro-controllers. I have bought many, they are sitting in boxes, I just can't seem to get traction. I find this one motivating because its small and I have a specific need.

I want to be able to collaborate with someone else in coding. Should I be using CodeBender then? Or just stick with the Arduino IDE?
I am a minimalist web programmer and I find it off-putting when tens of thousands of files get installed for a dev environment, so CodeBender seems attractive. But I am wondering if it is relevant today? I have tried PlatformIO but that also blew me away for the same reason.

Should I even think about MicroPython or stick with C? I paid someone to do a long dev project on ESP32 and MicroPython kept bumping against the memory limits.

I guess I just need a step-by-step hello world to get started. I'll be ok after that.
Thanks.

Because I am so busy I just need a "hello world" on this display to motivate me to take more time. I am at:
https://learn.tinycircuits.com/Display/TinyScreen_TinyShield_Tutorial/
But it fails with the error:  TinyScreen.h: No such file or directory
If I could just get something on the display it would motivate me to go further.
ChatGPT is giving me scripts that don't work for the same reason.
Thanks.

Yipee. Its working. I found this in the notes at the bottom: The TinyScreen library can be downloaded through the Arduino IDE menu at Sketch->Include Library->Manage Libraries... "TinyScreen"

Just seeing something on the screen would inspire me to keep going. For the same reason, ChatGPT is providing me with scripts that aren't working.