>> The nice thing about this soloution is the book and board are designed 
>> to go together. IMO that is very valuable to a beginner.
>>
>> Do you have any idea what this engineering associate's existing skillset 
>> is like?
>>   
>He's a super tech, trained in nuclear submarines. Luckily he has no 
>programming experience at all,
>so he has no bad habits to unravel. He's a hands-on guy; MPLAB and some 
>hardware would  go
>faster, I'd think... but I am open  to anything.
>
>--Bob
>-- 

There's lots of them out there but I always had good luck with the
boards from Microchip. Reasonably priced and straight from the source.
They cover everything from blinking LEDs up to SMPS and RF daughterboards.

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