For those who don’t like to mess up with PCB making and prototyping but want to learn to program multiple types of microcontrollers there is a solution. Team in India developed easy to use kit for learning microcontrollers.

Kit includes:

Ease and simple to use E- tutorial and printed version book;

Tutorial screen-shot

Programmer that supports all kit microcontrllers: [...]

This is simple development board for Atmel AT89 series of microcontrollers that uses ISP programmability I found in sixca.com. This is good start for learning with MCS-51 base projects.

This board supports Atmel microcontroller series like AT89S51, AT89S52, AT89S53, AT89S8252 with DIP40 pin packages. The board uses ISP programming method through parallel port adapter. It has [...]

Microcontrollers family AT89C has parallel programming interface of flash memory. In order to write information we need to supply programming voltage +12V and for controlling almost all pins of ports are used. This is why parallel programming is done in special devices – programmers.
Microcontrollers AT89S besides parallel programming ability have ISP programming ability. Using Serial [...]

Microcontrollers with MCS-51 architecture of Atmel are one of the first product with inbuilt Flash program memory. Such attitude of Atmel gained popularity of its products among embedded system designers and hobbyists. Built in flash memory reduced the overall cost of microcontrollers. As we know the main popularity of Atmel is gained by AVR microcontrollers [...]