I think that the arduino is a good place to start as well. Its language
for the sketches can best be described as "C like". I program in C for
my preference and have for the last 20 years, the arduino language looks
very familiar to me (so therefore, real C will look very familiar to
_you_ after learning to program the arduino).
I think that Chris's approach to programming is fairly common with
microcontrollers. Having the ability to program the fiddly bits with
inline assembler while writing the rest of the software in a high level
language gives you all of the power of assembly without the tedious
hassle. As for C being more portable.. I'm not sure about that. Assembly
is going to be very non-portable between different architectures and any
high level language will be _more_ portable. That is to say, your
algorithms will port but your I/O interface code will mostly not.
I think that the best advantage of the arduino is that all of the fiddly
I/O stuff has already been done for you and has been placed into
community maintained libraries. You want to add SD Card support? You can
simply download the SD Card interface library and have at it.. You won't
need to spend time with your nose buried in the SD Card reference
datasheet trying to figure out just how long to pull this line high
before the other one needs to go low in order to write a bit. :)
-Adam
On 1/11/2012 5:36 AM, Joe Croft wrote:
Hi Shane,
With the Arduino you can start learning the basics of C++. It amazed
me too when I found you can wirte ina language that I used on desktop
and servers for years on a processor with 2K of RAM (ATMega328P). C++
is a nice language in that it will let you use modern concepts such as
object orientaion but still has the simplicity and power of C. The
Arduino environment simplifies it considerably though you can move
away from it with only a little effort when you out grow it.
-joe
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