As I've been mentioning, I'm new to the PIC world. I've ordered myself a
WARP-13A programmer because my primary interest in the PIC is developing
a series of tools to be used for a robotics project. The PIC will be
handling routine tasks and such so...

As already mentioned I've ordered the following chips to begin learning
on:
PIC16F84-04/P
PIC16F84A-20I/P
PIC16F874A-I/P
PIC16F877A-I/P
PIC16F628-20I/P

Now I've been reading about these boot loaders and all kinds of other
languages, and I wanted to figure out what I need to get started.

Because I ordered the WARP-13A I don't know what kind of restrictions
I'll have. Anyhow, my original plan was to use the MPLabs assembly
language because it was free. However I do have some background in c++
programming, and wouldn't mind considering a basic or c based language.
But I've heard that the c language has a lot of overhead, and doesn't
make things much clearer.

I'm also curious about JAL, and how/what that is, as well as what a boot
loader is.

Thanks everyone
Aaron Moore

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