Dear reader!

In front of you is a book – well not just a book, but more than that. This book will not only show you how to program AVR microcontrollers with Bascom-AVR software, but it will also show you microcontroller hardware which, with the help of your program, will breathe new life into your projects. When I talk to people involved into programming microcontrollers, I often hear that the only way to enter this world, is to use either C or assembly language, because these two languages offer the best possible results. I partially agree with that statement. It’s true that an engineer, who is fully-occupied with microcontroller designs, should use C and assembly language. One reason is that they have to switch from one microcontroller family to another very quickly – due to project targets, of course.

But for newbies to microcontroller programming, it’s different – much different!