On Oct 13, 2004, at 9:51 AM, Ian Smith-Heisters wrote:

> If you're not already familiar with this sort of thing, or terribly
> wealthy, I wouldn't recommend Peatman's book--it's only slightly less
>  opaque than the datasheets. There isn't a code example until chapter
> five, and once you get there, it's not a simple "hello world, blink
> my LED," it's some complicated mess of spaghetti, which probably
> just shows my persistent ignorance.

I bought Peatman's boko a while ago, and have been reading it pretty
slowly.  I'm not sure I like it, and I'm not sure I understand who it
is targeted at, but I don't see how you can call it a repackaged 
datasheet!
One of my objections is the speed with which he descends upon 
"structured
assembler" (via preprocessor) and a sort of baby operating system (based
on running the timer); it seems to me to be a rather narrow way of 
looking
at the chip.  OTOH, a problem beginners have with PICs is that there ARE
so many different ways to do the same thing, so perhaps it's not a bad
idea after all.

The book is supposedly aimed at Senior level college EE students, and
really expects that you have quite a bit of background in EE and 
programming.
It is NOT a rank beginners book...

BillW

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