Pommie said:
What language are you planning to use? If you need help with any code then just ask.
Thanks for the offer, I may just take you up on that! Right now, I'm still using Great Cow BASIC. Despite what seems like its perpetual beta stage, I'm finding it well suits where I am with mcus right now. It's easy, it's budget friendly, and the parts that are there (which is about 95% of what you'd expect), work really well (as oppose to it having 100% of what you'd expect to be there, working at 95%, if you know what I mean!).
I've got the big "for dummies" book of C right here, and I've worked through a bit of it a couple years ago, but I still never found it particularly easy. I was a little embarrassed when talking to a fellow teacher (who teaches tech) last week, and admitting that I wasn't really comfortable programming in assembly, but what can I do?
There's nothing work-related for me that makes it necessary, or would justify, the time it would take for me to learn the syntax and semantics of C or assembly fluently. At the same time, due to my musical/electronic interests, being somewhat savvy with MIDI in order to be able to easily translate music entered in composition software into whatever protocol I hack together with whatever robot I end up with, is another time/work factor. Sometimes I just reach the capacity of what my '286 brain can handle!