Are these kits good for getting started with Arduino?

Question

Arduino

In short, I decided to start with Arduino. I have experience with PHP, JS, C. I found these sets on Ebay: First and Second . But in the second there is no Arduino board itself. No problem, you can buy it separately. In short, what can you say about them, are they suitable for a start? Or can you tell me others with which you started? Preferably not more than one)

Answer 1

The first set is quite okay, but the cost is wild.
If you are going to do radio electronics, it’s better to take a hundred LEDs in bulk, a set of output resistors and capacitors (it’s convenient to stick them into a breadboard, and when you move on to developing your devices, buy SMD), you can also take something simple like the same 1-wire thermometers, I2C or SPI ADC, stepper motor driver (by the way, in the first set, the stepper is not good for anything, it has an extremely small torque even despite the gearbox, and it also rotates very slowly), etc.
And I’ll say right away: give up the “ardurino-IDE”, otherwise you will never learn how to work with Atmel chips. Write to us, compile avr-gcc and flash.
Well, in six months or a year, you will come to understand that atmel is very outdated rubbish and it is better to take something much more convenient (at least the same STM32), where for the same (or even less) money there will be more pleasant functionality + higher performance.

Answer 2

For an initial acquaintance, I would recommend Matryoshka Z. It comes, of course, at an inflated price. But well documented in Russian. Here is a post about it .
And if you want to save money, you can also work in a software and hardware emulator .