I'm with bacon_waffle on this - for the majority of people where I witnessed this the entry doesn't really matter, and once you come up to the limitations you'd

I'm with bacon_waffle on this - for the majority of people where I witnessed this the entry doesn't really matter, and once you come up to the limitations you'd have to kinda start from scratch for this arch anyway, but the top-down approach goes a long way. That said, I'm also just a higher-level software person and doing low-level embedded is too tedious for me to do it as a hobby :P