Strangely enough, I wish I could find a book like that for my class...

I am teaching college students about the PIC in relation to a computer
architecture class, sort of as a hands-on example.  I've found the 16
series chip to be a little more challenging for the students to work
with, the 'quirks' of the 16 series can sometimes get in the way of a
concept.  What is holding me, and my advisor, from moving up to the 18
series is the lack of a good book to work from.


William Chops Westfield wrote:

> On Wednesday, Apr 21, 2004, at 23:22 US/Pacific, Robert B. wrote:
>
>>
>> I learned most of the basics from Predko's "Programming and
>> Customizing PIC Microcontrollers", and found it to be very >
>> instructive.
>
>
> I found it useful too, and "not too expensive" compared to the average
> textbook.  (Going to college will change your mind about bookprices
> forever.  Dropping $70 on a book that you're not interested in, for a
> class you have to take, is just ... depressing.  $35 technical books
> will seem like a bargin, and $8 paperback fiction will get snapped up.)
>
> It does tend to ramble into other architectures (PIC17, 12 bit cores,
> etc.) (that was one of the reasons I liked it, but it's less than ideal
> for an intro class that's going to focus on A particular chip.)
>
> What you're really looking for is something along the lines of
> "Introduction to microcontrollers and embedded programming, featuring
> the PIC18F452", or something like that?  I don't recall seeing any such
> thing :-(
>
> BillW
>
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