Not preparing for button 'bouncing' is a common mistake that most beginners will come across once, and there are several methods for debouncing to allow for accurate button reading on digital input pins. A simple solution is with hardware - using a pull-down resistor and capacitor to keep the logic low (or high). However you may not have the parts, or the space in the prototype. Therefore the method described by Jordan at digitalduino will do the trick - they describe how to debounce using interrupts. By wiring a button to an interrupt pin, when activated a function runs that counts time using millis() to debounce in software.
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