C (Programming Language)

The language being used in this project is C. If you are familiar with C++, the concepts are very similar. C is a low level programming language. This means that it does not have a large amount of "built-in" functionality, therefore learning C is quite straight forward.

The compiler used for this project is listed above. It is a modified version of the GCC Compiler.

A set of well maintained tutorials can be found here: http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/c/lesson1.html

Topics that one should be familiar with include (in order of importance):

• If statements
• Looping
• Functions
• Variable types and how they work
• Arrays
• Pointers
• Structures, Unions

Unrelated topics:

• Printf (There is no GUI)
• File I/O (All I/O operations are specific to the chip)

Knowledge of common data structures (binary trees, linked lists, etc.) is beneficial, but not mandatory.