No but some of the players will offer demo versions you can play with.
Since you are student in computer science perhaps your school can acquire
an educational discounted site license from one of the vendors.

Rich

At 03:28 PM 4/15/98 +0300, you wrote:
>There ain't such thing as a free lunch...
>
>U. Holz wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> iĞm Uwe Holz, a student of computer science. i already managed to
>> assemble and run little (very little) programs on pic16c84. iĞm looking
>> for something like a free c-compiler or basic-compiler.
>> as far as i see no actual thread about, would you please give some
>> comments?!
>>
>> cu
>> uwe
>