On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 02:46:18AM -0500, Richard R. Pope wrote:
> Hello,
>      I have the book; Programming and Customizing PICmicro Controllers=20
> by Myke Predko but the CD was left out of the book. Does anyone have a=20
> spare CD that goes with this book? There is some information on it that=20
> I am very curious about. Also is there a really good book out there=20
> about programming the PICs in C? And what about a book for programming=20
> the Arduino in C?

> Thanks,
> rich!

Rich,

This is probably the best time to stop and ask a few questions.

1. What is your primary development objectives? Can you give a few examples
of some projects you would like to get done?

2. What is your budget in terms of time and cost? If given the option of
getting a project done in a day or two for $30 or so as opposed to getting
a project done in a week but only spend $4 or so with parts you already
have on hand, which option is more palatable to you?

3. Is your objective to really learn what's going on underneath the scenes
or simply using the uC as a "black box" in terms of controlling something
with the it?

4. I think you already answered the GUI/IDE vs. command line question with
a leaning towards the former.

5. I also think you've already answered the assembly vs. high level
question with a leaning towards the latter.

I also noticed that you referred to Myke Predko's book. So it's quite
likely that you are about 4 generations behind in terms of PIC parts.
In the last year I've upgraded to the PIC24FV series of parts. It's like
the difference between night and day in terms of performance and
programmability. And with a 5V power supply and 20/28 pin DIP packages, the=
re's
absolutely no difference in circuit usage from earlier generations of
parts. Plus if C is your language, there is the free C30 compiler and
virtually all of the application examples that exist are written in C.

Hope this gives you some insight.

BAJ

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