PicDude wrote:
> I took the class yesterday (in Austin, TX), and I agree it was somewhat 
> slow.
> Starting around 9am, we only pulled up mplab to start some coding 
> tutorials
> well after 2pm.  Up to that point, it was all general USB info with
> comparisons of the different speeds, comparisons of generic classes, etc.
> Useful, but it could've been quicker and some of it could've been left to 
> us
> for later reading.  Specifically so that we could do more practical 
> coding.

Yup, sounds exactly like my experience. :)


> The coding we did do were some small mods (3 lines typically) of some
> existing code to test for the line being ready and sending or receiving 
> some
> strings.  I would've like to see some actual info/experiments on 
> configuring
> the devices, and using more than just one class (CDC).  But we were told 
> to
> check app notes for that.

I have MSVS code examples that the uChip instructor emailed us, please drop 
me a line if you want it.


> It was also a bit disappointing that at the end we were told that the
> examples we did were already deprecated as it was bases on framework/stack
> v1.3 and v2.3 was out already, with the API functions changed to be
> consistent across the various device families.  Not a big deal, since we
> only saw/touched a few API functions.

That's a bummer. For some reason, it seems like the folks at uChip don't 
like to "eat their own dog food". This is especially true in regards to 
their C libraries (and I can understand why (they're poorly designed), but 
still...


> Still, the presented material, concepts, hands on tutorial using a working
> test environment, and links to more info was good and I did learn a bunch.
> It would've even been worth it if I paid for the class :)

You got in for free?! >:-O   How did you manage to do that? :)

Vitaliy 

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