AVR-Chat

A Mega8535 40-pin plugs straight into a STK500 and can be programmed via a RS232 port. So you may not need that AVRISP MKII. With this the 8535 and other chips can be programmed via a USP port.

The book "Embedded C Programing and the Atmel AVR" at one time came with the evaluation copy of CodeVisionAVR, and it probably still does. cvAVR is a very good C language compiler, especially for newbies. The CodeWizard that comes with it is great also. The only restriction is the code size is limited to, I believe, 2K. But that is enough to get you well into using the AVR family of micros.

Mike


--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Riccardo Castellani" <ric.castellani@...> wrote:
>
> I'm going to learn ATMEL AtMega8535 programming, so I bought:
> 
> STK-500
> AVRISP MKII
> 1 breadbord
> 2 books: programming and customizing the avr microcontroller + Embedded C 
> programming and the atmel AVR
> 
> What do you think if I use IAR Embedded Workbench as C compiler ?
> What version ?
> suggestions
> 
> Riccardo
>