>
> 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


Excuse me, I'll put some words from the opposite side here.
I'm one of those hopeless beginners who just want to solve some
control problems, and PIC seemed a good solution. It seemed a good
reason to learn PICs a bit deeper, it's just plain interesting stuff
anyway.
But we need to do our day jobs, we need to do a lot of different
things at home, we need to get out of home for some fresh air, so
unfortunately we do not have enough time for everything. Life is too
short to learn everything very deeply.
Web is no help here, since it makes bad habits. We are used to learn
small web pages with nice pictures, and after some time we are not
able to read a longer text any more, we get distracted all the time by
something else. It's much easier for me to read few pages of some
tutorials, and may be some example code from piclist.com and solve my
problem, instead of learning all the stuff from official manuals which
are mostly written for professionals who know exactly what they are
looking for.


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