January 16, 2007
This year’s new version of IC is finally here, with plenty of improvements. Go to the IC download site to get it.
A couple of the biggest additions are an expanded memory space, and new keywords. Programs now have nearly three times the space available to them, space that can be used to store globals and functions (don’t forget the KISS principle though).
The new keywords are:
switchcasedefaultdo
switch, case, and default are all used in the popular switch statement that can be used to replace a block of if statements. The do keyword will allow for do-while loops. For more information on these, you can check out the IC manual.
There are also a couple of additions for hobbyists, including a serial library and Bluetooth support, look at the history file for a full list of changes.
Happy programming!