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> Hi friendsi am new in AVR's.i want to srart learing this 
> powerful chip.besides idont want to vaste time now i have a 
> question from you.do i start with codvision or bascom?which 
> one is better for a electronic student?which one is 
> easier?what is your reasons?beside i know a littele 
> C(language) but i dont know basic at all!.maby codvision is 
> good for me.what is your suggestion?thanks a lotMona

I suggest you have a look at: http://www.arduino.cc/

Underneath it is a wrapper around AVR Mega168 and AVR-GCC C/C++ Compiler
with a nice library and IDE environment and some hardware that works well
with the environment.

It is probably not all that different to BASCOM/AVR in terms of how
hard/easy it is to start doing stuff with it but as someone who has used
both, I'd prefer to use the C/C++ environment so Arduino is a better choice
for me for projects that I want others to be able to use.

If you really want to get at the bare metal then just using AVR Studio with
WinAVR (avr-gcc + avr-libc) is a reasonable place to start also but you are
exposed to the whole of the environment whereas things like Arduino and
BASCOM/AVR hide some complexity from you.

YMMV

Alex Shepherd