[dorkbotpdx-blabber] assembler on the arduino?

[Greg Borenstein]

Ben,

What you're saying definitely makes sense. And I'd love to take you up  
on your offer. When can I come grab them from you?

Also, if you've got some assembler experience, can I buy you a beer  
and get a basic tutorial from you some time with the gear?

Thanks!

-- Greg

On Jan 28, 2008, at 10:19 AM, Ben Bleything wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008, Greg Borenstein wrote:
>> You've got it exactly right. Maybe the prof is planning to use  
>> exactly
>> that C-based method yiyi pointed me, too. I guess I'll find out soon.
>> I was mostly just trying to get a head start on some of this stuff
>> since I'm going to be playing catch up not ever having taken a formal
>> computer science class before. I thought that at least I could be the
>> guy who knew how to actually run code!
>
> If you're just looking for assembler principles, I'd look at a PIC
> instead.  It looks like the class is going to cover how to do  
> everything
> you want to do on the AVR/Arduino, so I wouldn't stress yourself  
> trying
> to figure it out ahead of time.
>
> The PIC is a (somewhat) similar uC to the AVR, is way cheap and
> programmers and really simple and cheap.  In fact, you can just borrow
> my programmer and I'll give you some PICs.  You'll be able to get the
> feel of assembly and still be working on a uC.
>
> Alternately, JVM assembly is pretty easy and interesting, and it's  
> very
> accessable.
>
> These options will only give you the "feel" of assembler, and you'll
> have to rely on the class to show you how it works on the target
> platform.
>
> Finally, you can use an AVR but you'll need a programmer... there are
> some low-cost AVR programmers available, but an STK-500 will pay off  
> in
> the long term.
>
> Ben
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