Thanks for the reply Dev7060. I'm currently working my way through a set of articles starting with CPU programming basics and beyond. This does go on to discuss the O-O concepts (and other more sophisticated ones), but, yes, I will need to write some basic code first if only to knock off some rust ! The articles are headed "Principles of Execution" on the "i-programmer.info " site. I think their webserver has been a bit 'glitchy'...

Hi - I am planning to build and program the "Arduino" microcontroller for a number of hobby-type projects.

I think C/C++ seems the logical language to learn as the Arduino IDE uses the 'C' compiler to generate it's code. However, I've never tackled a language as complex as this before. Although I have quite a lot of hardware knowledge, I'm relatively new to programming...

Previous experience is limited to correcting...