One book that I recommend having is C in a Nutshell, published by O'Reilly.
Thanks Kevin - found this book at the Barnes and Noble in Bellevue, WA tonight and I bought it. I have a feeling the Kerrigan and Ritchie book was more like an equivalent to the Art of Electronics. I'll probably do better with the O'Reilly book since it is quite easy to follow and includes a bunch of GCC compiler discussion. I also downloaded the Flash examples recommended by Roy Eltham, so I think I'm all set to get started.
I really haven't had the time to read the other comments in this thread, but I can see that it went sideways. I'll do that this weekend when I get home.
Well, I am following the Business Types Guide to C but I don't want to be the normal sales ding-dong that shows up at Parallax and asks how many [thousands] we will be buying. If I can gain some intelligence about GCC's benefits and limitations in Propeller 1 then I'll be able to get more design-ins where we're not getting any attention.
We still need to find a front-end Eclipse guru. Got a few tips from Captain Quirk but more options would be beneficial.
And hats off to the volunteers, too. If any of them want anything we can provide (hardware, robots, sensors, etc.) please contact me. Your contributions are truly valuable.
Ken Gracey
NXP uses Code Red for its ARM series of chips. That is actually an Eclipse IDE set up specifically for them. Of course being a huge multinational corp spun off by Philips NV, they probably had money to burn, but the Code Red guys could probably do one of these for you. I have looked into doing a couple of plugins which is essentially what Eclipse uses to adapt to other languages and such, just not enough time to play here......
Ken, congrats!! Welcome to the newbie pool. The smart guys are pretty tolerant of the rest of us!
I thought you were following the "business types" guide to C - set direction, hire consultants, concentrate on YOUR job until they are done! (kidding!)
Hats off to all the developers!
Since someone is accusing Ken of being the "Business type", perhaps I should donate to him:
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Thanks Kevin - found this book at the Barnes and Noble in Bellevue, WA tonight and I bought it. I have a feeling the Kerrigan and Ritchie book was more like an equivalent to the Art of Electronics. I'll probably do better with the O'Reilly book since it is quite easy to follow and includes a bunch of GCC compiler discussion. I also downloaded the Flash examples recommended by Roy Eltham, so I think I'm all set to get started.
I really haven't had the time to read the other comments in this thread, but I can see that it went sideways. I'll do that this weekend when I get home.
Thanks all -
Ken Gracey
NXP uses Code Red for its ARM series of chips. That is actually an Eclipse IDE set up specifically for them. Of course being a huge multinational corp spun off by Philips NV, they probably had money to burn, but the Code Red guys could probably do one of these for you. I have looked into doing a couple of plugins which is essentially what Eclipse uses to adapt to other languages and such, just not enough time to play here......
Frank
Your in Bellevue Ken??? Got time to stop by the Robotics club meeting tomorrow between 3pm and 5pm?
Since someone is accusing Ken of being the "Business type", perhaps I should donate to him:
for his very own use.
Frank