Hi
You are two right about the beginners guide.  I learnt on the engineering
education scheme with school at a residential stay at napier university in
Edinburgh.  The two of us learning were given some simple examples and
learnt looking at the comments.  I have used magenta but not with their lcd
stuff.  If you read everyday practical electronics then they are doing some
pic - lcd stuff at the moment.


Tim


At 19:55 13/02/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>What was (I think) a good idea has lead me into the realms of Pic
>programming. Thing is, the last time I did any serious programming was
>many years ago in the days of the 4000 series PET (6502 assembly). UK
>available, whats the best book to start the learning process with ?
>I've got the book form MPS "A Beginners Guide" but it does seem to leave
>as many questions unanswered as it answers.
>
>Next, the reason for this return to programming. What I have decided to
>do is to use an LCD display, 2 * 16 or such like, to display a message
>that would not exceed the number of characters on the display. However,
>dependant upon an input line from another source it would display either
>message A or B. I have seen several lumps of code that would be capable
>of displaying one fixed message but not for changing over to a different
>one.
>
>Has anyone played with the LCD kit supplied by Magenta Electronics ?
>
>Of course the real problem is that I am beginning to see the potential
>for a number of projects that would benefit from the Pic type
>technology. Hope my MD feels the same way :-)
>
>TIA,
>
>--
>Philip Martin   email philip@philmart.demon.co.uk
>Royal Quays, North Shields
>


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