# Help with code in the book Make: Getting Started with Arduino

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**Category:** Electronics (Arduino, etc.)\
**Created:** [June 17, 2026, 8:24pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/help-with-code-in-the-book-make-getting-started-with-arduino/48831 "2026-06-17T20:24:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 24, 2026, 1:21pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/help-with-code-in-the-book-make-getting-started-with-arduino/48831/14 "2026-06-24T13:21:18Z")

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For some reason I had to use port initialized like this to get it to compile:

`processing.serial.Serial port;`

There are a lot of typos but it can be made to work:

 ![fq](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/processingfoundation1/original/3X/0/5/05b93a542420fac86b0e8bf00ec1160ba004929a.png)

**Addendum:**

If you do the _imports_ like this you can use just `Serial port;`

```processing
import processing.serial.*;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

```

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