Hello Ofir,

yes, the Atmels are a good choice for easy and cheap
starting and development with the 8051.
You need no expensive programmer, only some wires
to your printer port.
E.g. see at:
http://www.fmi.cz/jak/prog.html
for more details.

Look at Atmels HP to find a sales office in
your country and try to get 1-2 development
examples of the AT89S8252.
You need a company as address and think,
which projects you want to build with it.


Peter