An American Furry in Germany

Yes, that's right... I met someone on the wild wild interweb who works at the TZI [wearLab], and he sent me a notice that they were looking for student assistants. Today I went in for an interview, and we talked about red tape, C++, data gloves, and Wiimotes. Now it looks like I'm going to be porting the current code for the data glove (which was written in assembly language) into C. I was given an ATMEL controller to play around with, so I need to quickly start learning how to program hardware, and what the difference is between C and C++. I'm still worried that I might be underqualified, but there's no learning like hands-on learning. I'd better start researching it quick, though, so I can have the necessary skills before they're needed.