AVR-Chat

On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 09:47:24 +1300 Eric wrote:

>
>I am sure if you knew you C
>you would not have slash out with $67.95 (US) I take it.
>
>
>do you own this book Ralph?

Yes, I bought a copy when I started with AVRs. I'd used C++ quite a bit before
but there are aspects of C that one doesn't get into using something like C++
Builder for windows apps. Only the first chapter covers an intro to C and that
is worth reading as it presents the language with an embedded processing
orientation. I felt the material was well presented in a gradient that was very
workable for me.

I would say that its time they updated in for current processors and some
changes in CVAVR such as pointer syntax.

I had quite a heavy learning curve and brainache switching to thinking with
microprocessors. One of the reasons I bought CVAVR was that an easy to read and
understandable book was available. Another reason was that the CVAVR list seemed
very friendly to newcomers and helpful. Given that I don't have a large budget
available I considered using Bascom but was put off by the brusque and
occasionally rather unpleasant attitudes on the support list. At that time I was
only considering developing one application. Now its become somewhat addictive
and I'm glad I got that C compiler as Basic is very restrictive. Pavel was even
good enough to give me free updates for life after I ported the Megaload
bootloader to CVAVR and put up a webpage on it http://cmeter.org/CVmegaload/

If someone wants a copy of the book I would search around for the best price. It
was cheaper for me to get it sent from the UK for GBP33 than locally.

>
>From Eric
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ralph Hilton" <ralph@ralphhilton.org>
>To: <AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 9:28 AM
>Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] Best C tutorial for AVR
>
>On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 01:13:51 +1300 you wrote:
>
>The book at
>http://www.prllc.com/productcart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=6&idproduct=12
>gives a good description of using C on AVRs with lots of good example code.
>
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