On 6/26/07, William Chops Westfield wrote: > > On Jun 26, 2007, at 4:15 PM, Mark Rages wrote: > > > For someone just beginning, I'd recommend considering a > > microcontroller with GCC support. This may not be a PIC. > > > gcc doesn't exactly come with a beginner-class IDE, does it? > (Possibly excepting "Arduino") For someone just beginning, > maybe a set of CLI-based tools aren't the best idea? (OTOH, > if they're going to do embedded programming, "leaving the GUI > nest" might be a good thing.) > It doesn't get much simpler than the command-line for compiling simple programs. You only have to deal with one thing at a time: Editing, compiling, programming the chip. No obscure configuration screens, no magic. You can easily get help from the Internet by cut+pasting the commands you are using (and errors you generate). Bigger programs can be more complex, but by then you'll hopefully have learned about make. Anyway, the compiler and IDE are separate programs in any sane environment, so I'm not sure how choosing GCC makes a difference in the IDE. Regards, Mark markrages@gmail -- Mark Rages, Engineer Midwest Telecine LLC markrages@midwesttelecine.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist