I started off with a PIC16F628A microcontroller and a bread board.

Reading data sheets and searching the web I put together a serial programming circuit and got started. I taught myself MPASM and was was good, fucking around with LEDs and 7 segment displays.

I then moved up to USB capable 18F series and did some cool shit with that, all in C.... bit banging a graphical LCD screen and what not.

Of course, this was 10+ years ago. I guess Arduinos are way easier to get started with. Start off with assembly and once you've got a decent understanding of how it works move on to C.

There are endless guides and shit on the internet

>>54574877
Thanks senpai. What sort of assembly do you recommend? I hear there's different instruction sets.

>>54574917
Don't learn assembly, it's pointless except for a very small set of extremely specific tasks. 99% of low level work is done in C.

>>54574967
Is there any good quickstart guides to C?

>>54575001
If you already know python it's not that different, in the beginning you can pretty much write in the same structure and just look up the different syntax for whatever you want to write.
But when you work low level you have to think of stuff that you don't have to in python, like memory management and efficiency, program flow (interrupts, semaphores etc). There's also a lot of direct memory manipulation via pointers that iirc don't exist in python. These things don't really fit in quick start guides so I recommend just taking it one step at a time, maybe pick up a proper textbook at your library and work through it.

>>54575060
Alright, got it.

>>54574917
Depends on what you're programming for

Different processors/microcontrollers have different instruction sets

>>54574967
Learn assembly if you want to know more about the hardware.