sergio masci wrote:
>
> Trying
> to learn something from scratch on your own seems to be a bigger
> challenge
> now than it used to be 30 years ago. For one thing, reference books
> were
> incredible works compared to most of the junk that comes out today.
> 
> It is easy to find an incorrect explination and for that to hamper you
> as
> you are trying to learn.

Indeed that's one of the problems with the Internet.  Who do you trust?

For example, there's a ton of PIC tutorials out there (including mine).  How
do you know what's useful?  Many of them teach bad habits, such as using
absolute mode.  Some things are just plain wrong.  Heck, I've found errors
in my own tutorials when I've gone back and revised them!

Glancing at my own bookshelf, I see "6502 Software Design" by Leo J.
Scanlon, and "68000 Assembly Language Programming", by Kane, Hawkins and
Leventhal, both published in 1981 and both of which I learned a great deal
from - plenty of good advice in both.  Certainly I haven't seen every PIC
book out there, but what I have seen just isn't up to that standard.


David



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