Embedded Experts Guide to C
Dr Chris Rose
‘C’ was the first “proper” programming language that I learned myself (shortly after being taught Pascal in 1982) and I still like it for its simplicity- you can see its influence in so many modern languages. I’m also hoping to use it for some of my electronics projects to program micro-controllers and I have already identified a tool chain to compile to the Z80 board that I am building. Hence when I saw this I thought it would be a good refresher for the language and interesting to see what a professional practitioner would say about the language.
And I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by this book, it was interesting, clearly written with very little padding and several useful code snippets. It covered many topics beyond basic programming of particular interest to the embedded systems practitioner, things like memory management, interrupts And runtime support systems. I can highly recommend this to anyone in the field and I think that I should at least skim through it again before undertaking any serious micro processor programming.