Hello!
Agree with Susan. And I would add that, rather than using a book, using a development board
would be even better. I have made a few tutorials that can be seen from here:
**broken link removed**
As you can see, it starts with the LED blinker. I tried to explain very accurately what I did, but
I'm aware there are always things you don't explain when you're used to embedded development.
I will enhance the whole tutorial one of these days, but I have some other work at the time, and
this work brings food, not the tutorial...
You may consider to use one of the TI launchpads which are extremely cheap (maybe less than a book)
and don't need any external hardware (the emulation tool is on board). The development environment
is free up to a certain size (16k??) when using TI compiler, and completely free when using GCC.
Dora.