I got Easy Pic'n and it's not bad, but it could be better.  It's probably
the only resource outside of Microchip/Parallax.  ALthough, I think someone
just published a book based on the PIC just recently and someone gave it
the thumbs up.

As for learning Assembly or C or whatever.  Assembly will let you see how
all the little operations work on your PIC.  The downside is that it is
time consuming to learn and implement.  At you age though, it may not ba a
bad idea.  C is a language that you can use throughut life, and on more
powerful machines.  It's the long term way to go.  I do Pbasic because I
need to get things done quickly since my PIC stuff is done after work when
I don't have much tome.

So there you have it.  I have thoroughly confused you :)

Rob
At 05:25 PM 10/8/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Thank you all for your responses to my seemingly endless list of
>questions, but I do have a few more... when I do get a programmer, (which
>I think I may end up getteing that PIC-1a kit from ITU) should I get that
>begining book, easy pic'n (or something like that) and I do believe that
>it only teaches to program in assembly (correct me if I'm wrong on that).
>Should I use a c compiler for the pic, picbasic, or what?  I know assembly
>is VERY hard to learn (according to my physics teacher) and I really don't
>know any other language besides Pbasic and my calculator's language (which
>I'm told is like c).  I am more than willing to learn any language though.
>So, what do you recommend?
>
>sincerely
>
>Jonathan
>
>