I like Myke Predko's "Programming & Customizing the PIC
Microcontroller", a big book priced at $35, but with plenty
in it even for experienced PIC users.
What I can't find is a good text on all the features of
Microchip's own compiler?

Alex Barrett

----- Original Message -----
From: JP.BROWN <J.P.Brown@BRADFORD.AC.UK>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: 03 February 2000 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: PIC Books


> Hi Andrew, I am also staggered by the price of some the
PIC books, the
> Easy Pic'n book is probably the best beginers Pic book but
the price
> is high for a slim book that you will only use when you
are first learning
> about the Pic.
>
> One book that will not break the bank (and is quite good)
is the Penfold
> book called 'An Introduction to PIC Microcontrollers', in
the UK it is
> only 5 UKP. If you have some microprocessor experience
already you could do
> worse than study the Microchip 16F84 data sheet, most of
it is very clear
> (better than some of the books available). I read it
twice, on the first
> read through I made a note of any words I didn't know the
meaning of and
> then made a note of the definitions as I found them
reading through the
> data sheet, then on the second reading of the data sheet I
had a list Pic
> terms with definitions for most of them.