For newbees like, may find interesting

From David Taits page:
http://www.man.ac.uk/~mbhstdj/piclinks.html
(linked fron http://www.man.ac.uk/~mbhstdj/ )

There is a file "first.txt" that tells you how to program your first pic
it is also available inside:

http://www.man.ac.uk/~mbhstdj/files/topic02.zip    (112K)

also inside this zip it tells you how to make a board (schematics)
that can program (software included in zip too) and run projects
for the 16C84 on the same board.

Hope this helps

Dean.

(-;   When they broke open molecules, they found they were
        only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms,
        they found them stuffed with explosions.

;-)


> Subject: spanking new questions about programming
> Date: Sunday, 26 October 1997 1:58
>
> well, its that little kid again who wants to know big league stuff and
> just cant' grasp on to it again...anyway, I have, by a strike of
extremely
> good fortune obtained a picstart plus.  I now have the hardware but now I
> need learn the software...AAAAARRRGGHHH!  I've want to do something with
a
> pic for about a week or two now, but all I have really done with the
> programmer is read its memory (I think that is what I did) I skimed over
> the manuals, and was wondering what a few things were, so here goes
> nothing...
> what are the things that I need to get a program on the pic, I know I
need
> the .asm file and then I need to run it through the assembler right?  do
I
> need that .inc file?  what is it for? do I need any other files? (I'm
> running mplab 3.31 by the way)
>
> well heck, if anyone is so inclined, just send me some really easy
project
> that I could do right now (hopefully there are a bunch of comment lines
on
> them...hint, hint) ie blinking an LED, or turning anLED on with a button
> push, etc.
>
> also, how do I wire up risistors and capacitors to my 16c84 as an
> oscilator? (oh yea, I neglected to mention that I am using the 16c84,
> oops)   some ceramic resonators are on there way, as well as a 16f84-10.
> oh yea.. waht is the differences between the -04 and the -10?  does one
> run faster than another, also I have heard that you can put in any
crystal
> between 4 and 10 MHZ as the osscilator, is that the actal clock speed?
> what's up with that?
>
> gall dern I must be a pain in the putoot.