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Hello From Southern California

PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2018 7:13 am
by CaliforniaSlacker
Learning PIC assembler with a 20 year old book and it's lots of fun.

Doing it in spare time which I have next to none so it's going at snails pace.

Looks like a good forum here. I was referred by somebody to it. Guy really knew his PIC's.

Re: Hello From Southern California

PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2018 8:38 am
by vloki
<edit> First, please confirm that you are not this idiot from the official MCHP forum ;-)

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20 year old book for learning programming a micro controller?
-> Forget it ;-)

To get something up to date, have a look here for example:
http://www.gooligum.com.au/PIC-tutorials

Lot of the tutorials are free.
If you like them, you can get a more at a cheap rate...

Re: Hello From Southern California

PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2018 4:48 pm
by CaliforniaSlacker
Yep.That's me!

Proud of it too.

I will learn PIC's the way I want to. Period.

It took a year of asking questions just to figure out right place to start with these PIC's.

I've found it. This book is great.

If Ric says don't post here, he's got it.

Re: Hello From Southern California

PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2018 6:50 pm
by CaliforniaSlacker
Tried the Googlium. It's more for people that are active in electronics currently.

It is a fine piece of work,

Also the 16F54 in this book I work with better than the 10F200 in Googlium.

Re: Hello From Southern California

PostPosted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 9:13 am
by vloki
CaliforniaSlacker wrote:Yep.That's me!

Oh no ;)

CaliforniaSlacker wrote:I will learn PIC's the way I want to. Period.

Most of others may think it is completely off the track and hard to give help on your way.

CaliforniaSlacker wrote:It took a year of asking questions just to figure out right place to start with these PIC's.

It may have taken much shorter time if you did not ignore the answers.

CaliforniaSlacker wrote:Also the 16F54 in this book I work with better than the 10F200 in Googlium.

I would skip the baseline PICs and start with the mid-range.

Re: Hello From Southern California

PostPosted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 6:07 pm
by CaliforniaSlacker
'It may have taken much shorter time if you did not ignore the answers.'

It is not so much that I ignored the answers.

A lot of it I just did not get at the time.

For example it finally came into focus the other day about this:

Program memory has PAGING. Data memory has BANKING.

There is a lot to learn about PIC's.

The question and answer helped a whole bunch though.