Color makes the difference!

Demonstrating software and tools for a smaller or larger audience is always a challenge. What looks good directly in front of your screen might not get the same attention if projected on a wall. Especially if you are browsing through the source code and you need the audience to follow this. What I have found very useful in CodeWarrior is the ability to configure it using colors. One thing I have configured is to show the current line in a different color:

Highlighted source line in CodeWarrior

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Hello World!

Welcome to the “MCU on Eclipse” blog!

Hello World‘ seems indeed a good headline for this first entry. Even if I consider a printf(“Hello World!”) not as something you should use as a first baby step in an embedded project: printf() has many better alternatives. But this is the ‘hello’ to the big world outside.
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