I am fascinated by hardware boards and coding directly with the hardware. I want to start?
I am already a software developer, but daily business work is neither challenging not improving my skills. 

I have no clue how this embedded things work, what are the setup needs to be done to even run hello world program.

So I am looking for very basic development board, which is support at C language.
not very complicated or high processing. As that would be over killing for a just beginner.
if I am able to understand how to handle a small device. I would learn other upper level board. As it is self paced and self teaching. I don't wanna jump over a complicated board as that happened to me once. I have having LPC 21xx board, well equipped. having good space to create program and run them. 
But I was knocked out in the round zero. could not figured out more then plugging into computer and turn it on.
So suggest me simple board it would be great if it support usb as my laptop does not have serial port. if if there is nothing no issue, I hope there will be something usb to serial. :)
Please help. I really wanna learn it. 

I am fascinated by hardware boards and coding directly with the hardware. I want to start?
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I am already a software developer, but daily business work is neither challenging not improving my skills. 

I have no clue how this embedded things work, what are the setup needs to be done to even run hello world program.

So I am looking for very basic development board, which is support at C language.
not very complicated or high processing. As that would be over killing for a just beginner.
if I am able to understand how to handle a small device. I would learn other upper level board. As it is self paced and self teaching. I don't wanna jump over a complicated board as that happened to me once. I have having LPC 21xx board, well equipped. having good space to create program and run them. 
But I was knocked out in the round zero. could not figured out more then plugging into computer and turn it on.
So suggest me simple board it would be great if it support usb as my laptop does not have serial port. if if there is nothing no issue, I hope there will be something usb to serial. :)
Please help. I really wanna learn it. 
