John, for guys like us who grew up with basic, there is an excellent (compiled) pic basic from
http://www.protonbasic.co.uk/ I had a look at c, but decided at my time of life I wanted to produce working projects not learn new (cryptic to me) languages so I stuck with what I was comfortable with. As others have already said, occasionally you may need a tight bit of assembler for critical things but otherwise the high-level languages are the way to go. Ken, vk7krj www.vk7krj.com On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 1:47 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice topic. I learned at bit. One source of info on the PIC is a course > book and > programming kit, programmer, prototype board and components set up by the > ARRL. > > www.arrl.org > > You get all the stuff you need to get going. Software and a integrated > development environment is provided. All in one package. They also have a > couple of new courses on the Raspberry PI and the Arduino. > > I got into the PIC course last summer, read the extensive course book and > learned to program the things. Made lights blink - also made LCD say "Hi > Hottie" to my wife. > > My only comments - > > 1. Nice course for a beginner - my roots are old and in BASIC and FORTRAN > Still used today, on junker laptops. So it was fun go fool with assembly > for while. > > 2. My impression is that the PICs are powerful if you do a lot with one, > but there is a lot of work involved to get up the learning curve. > > 3. My conclusion is that my next venture - should it occur will be with an > integrated product that I can program in high level, with good input and > some display capability, because I just want to get on with the project, > but then I am not making a production device. > > Others comments re the more complex boards appreciated and noted for > future reference. > > -73 john k6iql > - > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
