Lpc2000

Hi,
I am newbie in microcontroller world as well as in great ARM world.

WORTHLESS TALK:
Although I know that ARM microcontrollers are for the professionals; 
but I think we all need a starting point. That will help the newbie 
(like me) to start smoothly from the beginning and the professionals 
to have an overview. 

STUPID EXAMPLE:
I want to draw an example. Not to mention that one of the reasons of 
PIC microcontrollers from "MICROCHIP" to be famous is the resource. 
No other microcontroller has that much project, reference, tutorial 
what it has.

But PIC series can't be compared to the ARM by any hardware features 
as ARM is much richer than any PIC series. Only lack is the 
resource. I found few open projects or university projects with ARM 
microcontroller searching by Google. Why is this? Anybody please 
answer this newbie?    

BLOODY REQUEST:
My request goes to all great professionals of this group. Please 
make a starting point for us (newbie). More examples and projects 
are needed to learn programming LPC series smoothly. Especially step 
by step tutorial with code would be great. (Please give me some link 
if there any). 


NEED HELP:

I have IAR LPC2148 development kit and J-Link adapter. I tried 
example codes using IAR workbench and those run fine. But I couldn't 
understand the coding with my little PC based programming knowledge. 
Now my questions are- 

1. How would I learn C language specified for this particular 
microcontroller? 

2. How is the datasheet helpful to me? (I mean, what chapters do I 
need from datasheet to program in C?) 

3. Is there any good tutorial or book or reference to program 
LPC2148 or other ARM7TDMI step by step? 

4. Where should I start from? 

5. Somebody please upload or link few more codes to learn step by 
step. 

6. Suppose I want to interface a LDR to the circuit and want to show 
the value in the LCD display. Now which pin (AD) would I use to 
connect the LDR? And what would be the program? 

I apologize for my kiddy questions in the professional group. I need 
your help to go ahead in the microcontroller world.