Gentlemen, I am a newbie to microcontroller programming and seek your advice. I have a old and used but working ATMEGA32L processor board designed for some application. And I have a JTAG ICE from Atmel. I was given this board to learn about microcontroller. After searching the web, I found this STK500 which claims to be the tool for beginners. And I bought a book "embedded C programming and atmel avr" which gives some programs with blinking LEDs. My question: Being an absolute beginner to the world of embedded programming, should I go and buy the STK500 kit or can I understand with the JTAG ICE and the board I am having (it doesn't have any LEDs but I do have schematic of the board). Please advice what is good for a beginner so that I don't get frustrated but more interested in the beginning, and I can save time by learning towards right direction.
Thank you
Gopal