In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, johncouture wrote:

Kramer's got a good point.

If you read through the forums around here, you will find that it is the customers (us) that rave the most about Parallax products and it is not because any of us are getting paid to do so, it is because they are great products!  Look at the cost of things:  a $10 development board and a $29 SX-Blitz.  The books can be downloaded for free.  

The thing I like about Parallax books is that they often have an illustration or picture so students can make the connection between a resistor symbol in a schematic and the actual physical item.  

Occasionally I try to convince myself that I need to learn how to program PIC's and then after about two hours of trying to figure out what I need to buy (PIC programmer, cables, zif sockets, etc) and where to download the software (which IDE, which compiler, which language) .... I give up and go play with my SX chips!  SX/B is very easy to use and quite versatile.

Parallax is working hard to make it even easier to use (Jon Williams is working on a new SX/B book, Guenther is updating his Assembler book, Bean is updating the compiler, a new C compiler is due soon).  Besides, Parallax is a small enough company that if you don't like something you can growl at the senior management and they not only listen, they try their hardest to resolve the issue.  

So hang in there, ask questions in this forum and most of all, join the fun!

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