One bit of advice I can give is to read other peoples ideas and
descriptions about the microprocessor you are learning.  If you have
access to a different book on the PIC or even the data sheet this will
help. Also there are some good introductory articles on the web if you do
some searches.  Erics pic page (if my memory serves me correctly) has some
useful beginners material. Mykes book has some excellent information in it
but no book is perfect.
The reason I say all this is that microporcessor concepts are sometimes
difficult to expain on paper and if you just look at one book you could be
making life more difficult for yourself.

On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Aaron Hammett wrote:

>   I think I got in over my head with this one so far. I bought Myke's book
> last fall "Programming and Customizing PICs" and got through about half of it
> (totally confused, too) before realizing I needed a programmer. I regained a
> bit of bravery THIS fall and bought the YAP programmer from Wirz Elec. I'm
> the kind of person that would like to know exactly WHAT I'm trying to learn
> before I just dive in to breadboarding this thing and making an LED flash. I
> ..............................


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