A NOTE ON THE EXAMPLE PROGRAMS

Each tutorial section will include a number of short example programs. The examples will start with the simplest concepts and add some concepts in each succeeding program. Along the way, some comments will be trimmed to try and help keep the visual clutter down and keep the focus on the newer concepts being presented. As an example, comments to the effect that "this bit/port/address needs to be adjusted for your particular hardware" will eventually disappear, because by then you should know that e.g. if I am discussing an LED output on PORTA bit 0 and on your hardware you are using an LED on PORTB bit 7 then you'll make that change accordingly. Or when I mention in the first programs that after a "ret" instruction that you'd better have set up the stack first, after a while that comment and others like it will disappear.