How hard is it for a software developer to learn how to program a microcontroller?

Question

I\'m a software developer. I\'ve been programming in high level languages for a few years.

I would like to know, how to take my first step into programming hardware. N

Answer 1

If you know C then it's only a matter of learnig the tool chain steps to download the code.

Easy place to start (cheap hardware/software) http://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/HomePage