There are many ways to write, compile, and debug your C/C++ code. One popular option is to use an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) which allows you to do all of those in one single program.

An NASM assembler will turn your low-level coding, using mnemonics, into machine language that can be understood by the processor. This article will not teach you to program with NASM, but to create ...

AVR Programming 01: Introduction AVR Programming 02: The Hardware AVR Programming 03: Reading and compiling code AVR Programming 04: Writing code Prerequisites You must know something about C code.

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Find out how source code is compiled for different programming languages and computer architectures, including the evolution from FORTRAN to CLR and JIT compilers.

For those very rare occasions when an app's source code is all that's available, Wired details how to compile it yourself. Photo by artonice.