Book reference

[goober]

I’m thinking about getting this book http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Customizing-Microcontroller-Dhananjay-Gadre/dp/007134666X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280285909&sr=8-1

Just wondering if anyone had opinions about it.

Thanks

Joe

[Ben]

Hello.

It looks interesting. I think it’s a good book for you if you’re interested in learning how to do low-level AVR development. If you just want to get started with AVRs, however, you might want to first just try playing around with libraries that take care of the low-level stuff for you and provide you with a nice, high-level interface. For example, our AVR C/C++ library gives you functions for interfacing with all of the hardware on the Orangutan and a lot of sample programs showing how it works. Are you already familiar with C?

- Ben

[goober]

Hello.

It looks interesting. I think it’s a good book for you if you’re interested in learning how to do low-level AVR development. If you just want to get started with AVRs, however, you might want to first just try playing around with libraries that take care of the low-level stuff for you and provide you with a nice, high-level interface. For example, our AVR C/C++ library gives you functions for interfacing with all of the hardware on the Orangutan and a lot of sample programs showing how it works. Are you already familiar with C?

- Ben

Yes, I’ve been a software developer for 20+ years, mostly C/C++, and the pololu library looks very good. However I don’t understand some of the concepts used, how the address pin macros work, and so forth, so I thought I’d need a little more understanding of the hardware.

Thanks

Joe

[jan]

Hello.

I would not recommend that book (we have it). It has been a while (maybe five years or more), so I don’t remember the details, but I remember not being impressed. It’s now ten years old, which is a lot for this kind of thing.

- Jan

[Ben]

I know it might seem a little intimidating at first, but the AVR datasheets are a good resource if you want to understand the hardware better (and our library source code is available if you want to see examples of low-level control of various hardware peripherals). You are also welcome to post specific questions here. Also, this thread might be interesting to you if you’re looking for a book recommendation:

This Newbe needs help

Hi, I am a newbe to C and AVR studio. I know this has been asked a million times but are there any good tutorials/books for AVR studio? Thanks :slight_smile:

- Ben

[goober]

Hello.

I would not recommend that book (we have it). It has been a while (maybe five years or more), so I don’t remember the details, but I remember not being impressed. It’s now ten years old, which is a lot for this kind of thing.

- Jan

Well, that’s good to know, thanks.

Joe

[goober]

I know it might seem a little intimidating at first, but the AVR datasheets are a good resource if you want to understand the hardware better (and our library source code is available if you want to see examples of low-level control of various hardware peripherals). You are also welcome to post specific questions here. Also, this thread might be interesting to you if you’re looking for a book recommendation:

This Newbe needs help

- Ben

Well, the data sheets are more opaque to me than intimidating. I’ve been looking up words and terms on the net as I read through them and that’s helped some. I’m just feeling like I should be more systematic about this.

I’ll check out the thread, thanks

Joe

[Ben]

You’re welcome to ask questions here about anything in the datasheet you find confusing. The discussions might help others who are trying to get started.

- Ben