CCS Tutorial?

Hi Mike,

did you checked out the tutorials in the CCS wiki here: http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Category:Code_Composer_Studio_v4 ?

Rgds
aBUGSworstnightmare

Of course. I've been throught *all* of the recent and old documentation. There is no up to date step by step tutorial for a new user of CCS, as many posts on these forums attest to. If you take a look at this old Tutorial, you will see that it is significantly more detailed than anything in the Wiki. It appears that TI has lost focus of the new users of their tools and is relying on schools and universities to do the initial training, which is fine if you only want very young new users. But for us veterans who come from years of using Visual Studio or MicroChip tools, the TI literature is seriously lacking. There is certainly a *lot* of it, but it is dis-jointed with NO good *comprenesive* introductory overview of the tools and how they relate to each other. I've been at this for over 3 months and still get very frustrated at the lack of good, logical introductory tutuorial-style docuementation.

Just my 2 cents.

MikeH

Ki,

It's very comforting that you (TI) have recognized and acknowleged this problem. I am greatful for your brutally honest answer.

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I must tell you that technically, TI appears to have no equal in terms of advanced technology of this kind (DSP). After several months of painstaking, frustrating experimentation I must say that I now see the power of the tools, as well as the technologies and do plan to continue using these products. With so many platforms and peripherals I understand how a company can lose focus on its documentation and training. But as you see (answering questions on the forum every day) clear, concise, logical documentation and training are essential to getting and keeping new "customers" (ie developers). Otherwise you will continue to satsify your existing, experienced customers, but will grow not new customers.

I hope that as you plan your upcoming documentation and training you take a hard look at:

1. A comprehensive overfiew of *all* of the TI tools and discuss how they relate to each other (CCS, DSP/BIOS, XDAIS, etc) from a *non-experienced* user perspective

2. Error message in CCS. Please take a look at the Microsoft Visual Studio development environment, especially in terms of real-time (as you type) code error detection and suggested corrections. This code almost writes itself! I find the CCS error codes very cryptic and not particuarly helpful.

3. More comprehensive on-line tutorial videos (take a look at some of these http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/default.aspx).

I realize that many (most) of your existing developers come from a Linux background, but I believe that you will find a large number of upcoming developers come from a Windows-based background and are accustomed to a powerful GUI that has many of the "modern" development language attributes. At some point you will need to adopt these or again, rely on educational institutions to do all of your early introductory teaching.

Thanks again for your feedback. I look forward to the new docs.

\rant

MikeH