Editing Microcontrollers for Beginners

== Assumptions ==
You:
*  Do not have a lot of money
*  Do not have a lot of electronics gear or experience.
*  Do not have a lot of programming experience.
*  Do want quick gratification.
*  Do not want to do really fancy stuff right off the bat.

== Use the Arduino ==

Use the Arduino Because:


It is a development board
It is inexpensive.
There is a broad amount of activity on the web, and a lot aimed at non techincl users.
It and its software is opne source.
There is a lot of library support for common tasks.

== Use Something Else ==

=== At least use a development Board ===


You are ready to go at almost the cost of components, you can get a kit or prebuilt.
Some of these are:


USB Bitwacker 


=== Use a high level language ===

The best may be C this is written about the PIC but applies to other processers as well [[Use C for PIC Programming!]]

but almost any is better than assembler -- this is dispite what the hard core says.