VIII.) You need a Terminal Program; Settings:

For your programming example you will need a terminal program.

You can use the Windows Utility Hyper Terminal

or you can simply use Terminal.exe or MTTTY.exe .

Please setup the configuration as shown in the following three pictures

(9600 Baud, 8 bit Data, no Paritybit, 1 Stopbit, Xon/Xoff Protocol):