> My recommendation is each student gets a QuickProto-01, a 
> 18F2520, and some
> sort of programmer.  Maybe Wouter has something? 

I have plenty, either available or as vapourware in my head :)

But I missed the start of this discussion, so maybe I am asking for what
was already said, but: what are the course objectives? 

I have one course for 2nd year informatics students, who are not
expected to do much electronics, and I want them to be able to do work
at home. So they buy a one-PCB thing that contains both a programmer
(connect USB and you are on the move) and the target and some
peripherals, and the lessons and assignments are matched to the
peripherals on the PCB. Some students connect external peripherals
anyway, but that is for extra points.

For 3d year electronics students, who are expected to work in small
groups and create quite some additional circuitry and use all kinds of
tools (o-scopes etc) that are available only at the school it makes no
sense to provide an all-in-one PCB or to make it possible to work at
home. For them we have [ one ICD2 and a few cheaper programmers ] per
group.

I can imagine lots of inbetween situations (my dwarf boards might fit
some of these cases, or an ICSP programmer + a solderless breadboard, or
...). Or more extreme: maybe you can do with just the MPLAB simulator,
no hardware at all. I often do this for the first assignment of my
course. Or maybe your students have to dig in real deep and need an
expensive in-circuit emulator and a fast logic analyzer.

So you must first define your course objectives!

Wouter van Ooijen

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