The C programming language surely reigns consummate in the embedded electronics community. Microprocessors can be found in 99% of all electronic appliances these days from car radios to cookers and it is the software that the microprocessors run that gives personality to the whole design.
Many hobby electronic enthusiasts cut their teeth on microprocessors by learning assembly language. Admittedly the Pic Microcontroller from Microchip is the processor of choice for many beginning on this path.
Assembly language presents a free of payment entry into this shop - ideal for the beginner on a little budget. Any way assembly language is somewhat laborious if a complicated task needs to be coded. Now free of payment C compilers are ready for download, so students can begin their programming sense in a high level universal language that can be used on many other high and low end microprocessors.
Assembly language is little to use with one single processor house and if the engineer migrates to someone else processor, he has to start again from scratch. C is a universal language and it is the headache of the compiler designer, not the engineer, to make sure the C code is compatible with the processor.
Most software written by non-hobbyists is written in C. Schedule snippets can be collected and used across many projects with separate processors until whole libraries of code are amassed. Code writing then becomes a simple task of choosing which code functions are needed and gluing them together - a task that the C programming language is particularly distinguished to.
Simple C for the Pic microcontroller gets anyone with little or no sense of C or Pic microcontrollers programming in as little as half a day.
C Programming For the Pic Microcontroller
