Vasile,

 For my own edification, why is 'JAL' "More proper" than Basic or
 Assembly for beginners?   I don't understand the reasoning.

                                   Thanks and Regards,

                                          Jim





> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Alan B. Pearce wrote:
>
>>
>> It would have a number of sexy peripheral items to experiment with,
>> already provided so there is no difficulty with adding hardware to
>> experiment, and the owner can therefore leap straight in and learn
>> software techniques for driving the different items.
>>
>> A CD of useful software, tutorials, and example programs would be
>> provided.
>>
>
>   I'm already thinked to a such PCB/CD/book. It'a almost done but is
> designed for Jal ( which is more proper for beginners that any
> assembler or C or picbasic compiler) and will be distributed with our
> new book. It has a section
> with +5V supply and 3 different midrange PIC-flash microcontrollers,
> two of them may be used simultaniously, a serial & parallel  LCD, AD,
> 4x7seg digits, RS232, RS485, potentiometers, various temperature
> sensors, eeprom, serial to parallel and reversed registers, leds and a
> really large protoboard area.
>  The whole PCB is on a simple eurocard and the user MUST solder his own
> connection to the pic pins. There isn't hw without sw on PIC land so
> don't excuse the user to do only PIC programming, that's the bigest
> mistake you may do. The experimenter must spend an equal time in
> developing his own hardware and software design. ( even in assembler
> you may expect your beard growing until finishing the firmware )
>
> best,
> Vasile
>
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