On Sunday, Jun 6, 2004, at 14:00 US/Pacific, Nikhil Praveen wrote:

> What do you guys think about the PIC18F452 book and QuikFlash
> Development Programmer at http://www.picbook.com for the beginner.

I bought a copy last time we had the "books for beginners" discussion,
and have been reading it (off and on.)  I've been trying to evaluate it
from the perspective of a beginner, which is pretty hard, not being a
beginner.  It doesn't seem to me like a good book for someone with no
EE background; it says it's aimed at senior EE books, and indeed it
starts off assuming some knowledge of circuits, and some knowledge of
computer architectures, and probably a previous class in assembly
language(s).

(This did raise an interesting question in my mind on just how you
teach microcontrollers to someone without that sort of background.  It
seems pretty cruel to expose someone to microcontrollers and assemblers
at the same time, though I have no idea how you can explain a
microcontroller architecture without assembler... (You don't
necessarily need to PROGRAM in assembler, but you need to understand
things like memory vs register address spaces and stuff.))

BillW

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