Very well put Domonic, I second that. It's a somewhat steep but short
learning curve.

Make sure you have printed copies of the relevant datasheet of your
chosen PIC and keep it at hand _at all times_. When I started, I read
it once almost from cover to cover, only skipping some parts I knew
I wasn't going to use for a long, long time. I'm 18 months further down
the road, programming in C but I'm still in need for that document on
a more then daily basis.

Regards,
Claudio

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I ended up learning by example (and there are a lot of them around on
PicList) to program in Assembler. It is suprisingly easy to pick up and
within a couple of weeks, I'd managed to design a tacho, speedometer,
interface with a LCD and get some pretty complex calculations worked out for
a thermistor based thermometer. Its a rapid learning curve (I'm a VB
programmer at heart) and some things may seem a little weird but very soon
everything starts to click into place and you're up and running.

Get a good book on Pic Assembler, give it a go - I would never look back now
and buy a copy of BASIC to program the PICs with.

I'm writing 3-4000 line programs purely in MPLAB with only a few months
behind me and its all self taught or learnt off code examples on Piclist.

Regards

Dominic

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