Best Microcontroller Programming Tool.......Well to ME!

Great Cow BASIC is a BASIC compiler for PIC and AVR microcontrollers. It lets you to program in BASIC instead of having to learn assembly. It's also completely free! Great Cow BASIC has been written with three main aims - to remove the need for repetitive assembly commands, to produce efficient code, and to make it easy to take code written for one chip and run it on another. It hides many of the more confusing parts of microcontroller programming, making it suitable for beginners and those who don't like assembly. The syntax of Great Cow BASIC is based on that of QBASIC/FreeBASIC, but with some alterations to suit the vastly different system that it compiles for. Great Cow BASIC will allow you to program most 8 bit PIC microcontrollers (10F, 12C, 12F, 16C, 16F, 18C and 18F chips), and also includes near-complete support for most AVR microcontrollers (Classic AVR, Tiny AVR and Mega AVR).