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Re: [AVR-Chat] C textbook

2006-01-04 by Dennis

So in all your roundabout ways, no one has any recommendation for anything.
Looks life an infinite loop, i.e. I wind up with a nonanswer.
Dennis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Washer" <washer@trlp.com>
To: <AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] C textbook


> Alas, I cannot. There's a dirth of decent embedded programming books. I 
> come for a long career of op sys internals, mostly *nix's (SVRx/BSD/Linux) 
> so perhaps the book just wasn't what I was looking for.  It's not a bad 
> book, just not great.
>
> What I really want is a 2006 updated edition of "The Art of Electronics" 
> by Horiwitz and Hill. A great book, but showing it's age (1989)
>
> On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 22:44:35 +0100
> Ralph Hilton <ralph@ralphhilton.org> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 13:33:39 -0800 you wrote:
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>> >I'll sell you my (hardly used) copy for 1/2 Amazon's price (i.e. I was 
>> >not impressed)
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>> For my needs it was useful. It depends on one's background.
>> I started with mainframes then shifted to PCs and it provided exactly 
>> what I needed to
>> program AVRs in C. Add reading the datasheet for the chip one wants to 
>> use and the manual
>> for the compiler then what is missing?
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>> Can you suggest a better book?
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>> >On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:34:45 +0100
>> >Ralph Hilton <ralph@ralphhilton.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 20:13:42 -0600 you wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >Can anyone recommend a good, comprehensive book for programming in 
>> >> >C/C++ for microprocessors/controllers?
>> >> >Dennis
>> >>
>> >> "Embedded C Programming and the Atmel AVR"
>> >>
>> >> details on
>> >> http://www.prllc.com/productcart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=6&idproduct=12
>>
>> --
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