Choosing Arduino for Beginners: Original vs Clone, Uno vs Leonardo, and the Best Stores to Buy

Uno maple is enough for a start. Preferably 2 pcs in case you would break / block the slinger.
If you are in a hurry, then aliexpress.
For this breadboard, some LEDs, 470r, 1k, 10k resistors and buttons. Or some set of accessories.

https://pl.aliexpress.com/item/free-shipping-...i-Breadboard-LED-jumper-wire/32392610240.html
https://pl.aliexpress.com/item/Starter-Kit-UN...on-for-Arduino-Free-Shipping/32395492385.html

Aaaaaaa, and such plates can be useful:
https://pl.aliexpress.com/item/98-10-free-shi...pper-prototype-pcb-Universal/32674680192.html

Note that cheap clones (e.g. the one from AliExpress that you linked to) often have a USB / Serial to CH340G converter. Then you need to install a driver for this chip. Then you check in the device manager which COM you have on this driver (Arduino must be connected to the USB port), and select it in the Arduino program (Tools -> Serial port).
It's actually not a problem at all, but if you don't know it ...

@zetdeel - it installed itself on win10, I suspect that it would be exactly the same on win7 and win8. You could also consider a series based on SAM Atmel (32-bit ARM Cortex cores) - 3.3V (which is often a plus because many sensors and displays already work at 3V3 max) but more powerful. If it is to be cheap and fast, instead of arduino clones, you can take cheap STM32F103 boards as shown in this video (also programming in arduino):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze6q6NidS5w
The problem is that the cheapest ones do not have a built-in usb-ttl, so you need an external (cost from one dollar up) or a st-link (cost about 2 dollars and above).
If, on the other hand, we want to make some devices based on arduino, we can try nano - they are cheap enough that you can buy a few of them and simply build what you want on them, or some measuring device, or some remote-controlled vehicle or controller aquarium or anything else. You will not regret using such a toddler.

Don't shake the boy because he'll go crazy. Uno is enough. I recommend Arduino Uno with a prock on the stand. It costs a hundred bucks, but if the prock fails, it can be replaced quickly and cheaply.

It will be ok. In case something happens to you with one MCU (eg you accidentally break it), it is enough to buy the microcontroller and upload the bootloader with the second arduino.

At the beginning, it is a perfect choice. In my opinion, only Uno with a microcontroller in the socket, because in the event of its release
you insert the second one and continue working (after uploading the bootloadrea).
By the way, buy yourself a USBasp programmer so that it will not even be useful in an emergency situation of this Uno
this will be useful as the next step in post-ISP programming.
Uno also because there are dozens of overlays / extensions (shields) on this board, thanks to which it tests standard projects
will be easier.

https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ArduinoISP
I don't think my colleague needs anything more at the moment.

telecaster1951 wrote:

I am thinking of buying 1 original set

Not on aliexpress, I doubt they have the originals.
Wait with the original, see first if you like programming microcontrollers.

@piotr_go
Paaanie, he's even been Blockly for Arduino for a while What's not to like here
e.g.
https://ardublockly.embeddedlog.com/
After all, in this form, this child after the lego robotics course is able to grasp arduino

Lemno wrote:

I found a few programmers, only worried me that ATmega8 and ATmega128 are written there. Does that mean I won't program this 328?

look for one that supports atemga 328 which is not new, almost all of them now support it.
Maybe you were looking at what controller this programmer is made of, and not what microcontrollers it supports.

tronics wrote:

After all, in this form, this child after the lego robotics course is able to grasp arduino

and why these boringly sad sarcasms?

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and why these boringly sad sarcasms?

What sarcasm? means not to take a part of the statement as seriously as your colleague has just done. And why exactly did I write something like that? Because it just so happens that kids in my town have recently learned about Lego mindstorm and the Junior level are such blocks. If a child on pulleys would do it, and on arduino pulleys it would be fine. Where's the sarcasm !?

I have arduino clones for as long as I can remember, those on CH340g are trouble-free win 7 and 8 install the driver immediately. I use mini pro most often because they are small

I was the first Arduino to buy the original Arduino Uno on Allegro quite a few years ago and it is still used today.
Currently, I am buying a smaller, nano or pro mini as it often applies them to the target device and fits better to the contact plate during experiments. I mean buying clones on Alliexpress, I haven't been disappointed yet, no problems with drivers, compilation of programs in different IDE versions is more likely to cause problems than a broken clone.
But remember, buying the original is supporting the Arduino Foundation and its development .