Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction
    Why C?
    Why AVR?
    Goals
Chapter 2: Quick Start Guide
    Software
        WinAVR - Oh, Whenever
        Programmers Notepad
        AVRStudio - FREE and darn well worth it
        Br@y++ Terminal:
    Hardware
        Constructing Your Development Platform
    Blinking LEDs - Your First С Program
        Write it in Programmers Notepad
        Download to the Butterfly with AVRStudio
        Blinky Goes Live
        Simulation with AVRStudio
    GOOD GRIEF!
Chapter 3: A Brief Introduction to С - What Makes Blinky Blink?
    Comments
    Include Files
    Expressions, Statements, and Blocks
    Operators
    Flow Control
    Functions
    The Main() Thing
Chapter 4: С Types, Operators, and Expressions
    Data Types and Sizes
    Variable Names
    Constants
    Declarations
    Arithmetic Operators
    Relational and Logical Operators
    Bitwise Operators
    Assignment Operators and Expressions
    Conditional Expressions.
    Precedence and Order of Evaluation
    Projects
        Port Input and Output
        Cylon Eye Speed and Polarity Control
Chapter 5: С Control Flow
    Statements and Blocks
    If-Else and Else-If
    Switch
    Loops - While, For and Do-while
    Break and Continue
    Goto and Labels
    A few practical examples: strlen, atoi, itoa, reverse
Chapter 6: С Functions and Program Structures
    Function Basics
    Returns
    Variables External, Static, and Register
    Scope
    Headers
    Blocks
    Initialization
    Recursion
    Preprocessor
    Projects
        Is anybody out there? Communicating with a PC
Chapter 7: Microcontroller Interrupts and Timers
    Interrupts
    Projects
    Grab your joystick - and test your interrupts
    Timers/Counters
    Calibrating the Butterfly oscillator:
    Projects
    Precision Blinking
    Pulse Width Modulation - LED Brightness Control
    Pulse Width Modulation - Motor Speed Control
    Speedometer
Chapter 8: С Pointers and Arrays
    Addresses of variables
    Function Arguments
    Arrays.
    FIFOs and LIFOs: Stacks and Queues (Circular Buffers)
    Function Pointers
    Complex Pointer and Array Algorithms
    Projects
        Messenger
        Does anybody know what time it is? A Real Time Clock
        Music to my ears. "Play it again Sam."
Chapter 9 - Digital Meets Analog - ADC and DAC
    But First - A Debugging Tale
    Analog to Digital Conversion
    Projects
        DAC and ADC - Function Generator / Digital Oscilloscope
Chapter 10: С Structures
    Structure Basics
    Structures and Functions
    Structure Arrays
    Typedef
    Unions
    Bit-fields
    Projects
        Finite State Machine
Chapter 11 The Butterfly LCD
    PC to LCD test program
    Conclusion
Appendix 1: Project Kits
Appendix 2: Soldering Tutorial
Appendix 3: Debugging Tale
Appendix 4: ASCII Table
Appendix 5: Decimal, Hexadecimal, and Binary
Appendix 6: Motor Speed Control Wheel
Appendix 7: HyperTerminal
Index