Hi Art,
Don't worry about the cost, they are all cheap! Also don't worry about
overkill in terms of what the chip can do, unused features & pins cost
almost nothing. For convenience go for a flash part & avoid the old ICD1
as the new chips like the 18F458 won't work with it! If you can afford
to get the ICD2 module and say the PIC18F458 then you can make just
about anything you want from the trivial to the spectacular.
I program everything in assembler which is of course free but does cause
some difficulty with maths etc. I've written a load of macros to handle
16bit maths and this works fine.
Finally don't be put off by the dozens of special registers etc, just
start with trivial 3 or 4 line programs and just go from there. It's not
rocket science and anyone can do it even if it looks a bit frightening
at first.
Good luck,
Roger

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From: pic microcontroller discussion list
[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Art
Sent: 12 June 2003 19:36
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: [PIC]: newbee, which chip to learn with?

Good day all.

I'm a newbee and someday I hope to be able to program these beasts.

As a newbee, I am wondering which chip I should start with??? The pic
page
says to start with the 16F, some chatter on here indicates another chip
has
more capabilities and sells for less.

Can anyone give me some guidance here???

Thanks
Art

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