I have a atmega32 board laying around and I figure it would be perfect to start off with microcontrollers. I once did some babbling in embedded C (thats when I got this board) but the flow was stopped due to some things. Now I have two questions

1. What is the best free resource to start off with C for the avr series. I know of AVR-GCC but was looking for some tutorials or free books to start me off.

2. Should I directly jump to C or go through ASM first? I see there are many asm books around. So what is a better option?

Edit:

while searching the Internet, I found the arduino bootloader for atmega32 here http://retrointerfacing.com/?p=30 but the problem is I a hesitant to do some tinkering with the fuse bits and all. Is it safe to do so?

I have a ATmega32 board laying around and I figure it would be perfect to start off with microcontrollers. I once did some babbling in embedded C (thats when I got this board) but the flow was stopped due to some things. Now I have two questions:

1. What is the best free resource to start off with C for the avr series. I know of AVR-GCC but was looking for some tutorials or free books to start me off.

2. Should I directly jump to C or go through ASM first? I see there are many asm books around. So what is a better option?

While searching the Internet, I found the Arduino bootloader for ATmega32 here http://retrointerfacing.com/?p=30 but the problem is I a hesitant to do some tinkering with the fuse bits and all. Is it safe to do so?