27220 Parallax Inc, 27220 Datasheet - Page 9

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• Description: BOOK STAMPWORKS
• Manufacturer: Parallax Inc

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Preface · Page v
GETTING THE MOST FROM STAMPWORKS
BASIC Stamp Syntax and
Before you get started, you’ll want to have a copy of the
Reference Manual
(version 2.1 or higher) handy – either printed or in PDF (available
as a free download from www.parallax.com). Through the course of this book I will
BASIC Stamp Manual
ask you to review specific sections of the
in preparation for an
experiment. At other times I may ask you to go to the Internet to download a
datasheet; by doing this we can focus on the details of the experiment and not have
to print a lot of redundant information.
STEPS TO SUCCESS
Read (or review if you have previous BASIC Stamp programming experience)
BASIC Stamp Syntax and Reference Manual.
sections 1 – 4 of the
This will introduce
you to the BASIC Stamp microcontroller, its programming IDE, and its memory
never
organization. And if you’ve
worked with microcontrollers or programming of
any kind, I strongly suggest that you download and work your way through our
What’s A Microcontroller?
student guide.
This outstanding resource is used in
schools all over the world and is considered the best introduction to microcontroller
principals and programming available anywhere.
StampWorks
The focus of
is on embedded programming and circuit integration.
That said, this is not a text on electronics principles. If you are new to the world of
Getting Started in Electronics
electronics, a great beginning text is
by renowned
electronics author, Forrest M. Mims. You can find this at your favorite bookseller.
Read “Preparing the StampWorks Lab” in the next section. This will introduce you to
the Parallax Professional Development Board (PDB) and get it ready for the
experiments that follow.
BASIC Stamp
Finally, work your way through the experiments, referring to the
Syntax and Reference Manual
(or online Help file) as needed. This is the fun part –
and the part that is the most work. Don’t allow yourself to be satisfied with simply
loading and running the code – dig in and work with it, modify it, make it your own.
By the time you’ve completed the experiments in this book I believe you will be
ready and will have the confidence to take on your own BASIC Stamp microcontroller
projects; from projects that may be very simple to those that are moderately
complex. The real key is to make sure you truly understand an experiment before