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2005\11\29@222321 by Grinder Smith

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subject:  [PIC]  book details  (was:  "Myke's
McGraw-Hill pages are lost?")

>Is the book a new edition or has he 're-heated ' the
turkey?

Do I read this correcly, is this a serious question
about the book?

Here's this book:
"Programming And Customizing The PIC Microcontroller",
Myke Predko, 1998

(Is this the 'turkey', Steph?"

Really, I found a few interesting things in this old
book.  Where the heck was the book, where the heck was
I, back in 1998?  I should have had this then.
Instead, I did nothing PIC at all.

Checked out from the Phoenix public library, disk
stolen.
(Disks do not just fall out of sealed plastic
envelopes glued inside of books!)


The book that I am still working to get the files for
is:
"Programming And Customizing PICmicro
Microcontrollers", second edition, Myke Predko, 2002

This book comes with a PCB for the El Cheapo
programmer and a 'full' CD of files from the book.


According to Myke, it became more of a new book than
just a second  (my short version from memory, I do not
quote the book here).

Really - again - I like this book.  Still, it is bound
to be out of date before we see it in the store.
That's just the nature of Microchip trying to beat
Motorola!  >5,000,000,000 MCUs built every year?


I desperately wish for a new version packed with the
most current PIC18Fxxxx/PIC18F8722 stuff.  So, I am
learning the 18 stuff the old fashioned way.
(Oh, I sure like the 18!)


Grinder


               
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2005\11\29@224512 by Kevin

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On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Grinder Smith wrote:

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I have a copy of the book, I probably still have the CD and
PCB if you want it.  I could burn you a copy and send it to
you. Not sure if that is quite legal, but if the file are
unavailable can't see how it could hurt. Let me know, if you
want them.


'[PIC] book details (was: "Myke's McGraw-Hill pa'
2005\12\02@082912 by Carey Fisher - NCS
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> Here's this book:
> "Programming And Customizing The PIC Microcontroller",
> Myke Predko, 1998
>
> (Is this the 'turkey', Steph?"
...
>
> I desperately wish for a new version packed with the
> most current PIC18Fxxxx/PIC18F8722 stuff.  So, I am
> learning the 18 stuff the old fashioned way.
> (Oh, I sure like the 18!)
>
>
> Grinder
>
Grinder,
If you're interested in the 18F, don't
waste your time with Predko's stuff.
Get the Peatman book:

Embedded Design with the PIC18F452
by
John B. Peatman.

It's outstanding!!!!

Amazon link:  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0130462136/qid=1133530035/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-1444959-1786552?n=507846&s=books&v=glance


>


2005\12\04@142319 by Grinder Smith

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subject:  [PIC]  book details  (was:  "Myke's
McGraw-Hill pages are lost?")

>>I desperately wish . . . most current
PIC18Fxxxx/PIC18F8722 stuff.

>Grinder,
If you're interested in the 18F, don't waste your time
with Predko's stuff. Get the Peatman book:

Thanks for the tip.  I will investigate.

As I have typed, "desperate".  I do what I can do.  I
read everything that I can get in front my eyes.  I
always have.  I still do.

Predko needs a copy reader!  I find no other book that
even mentions anything PIC18Fxxxx.

I know one thing, the 452 is obsolete.

Time for inter-library loan!  ILL

Time for a decent and current and modern and copy-read
book???

What a concept?


Thansk!

Grinder

>"Embedded Design with the PIC18F452", John B.
Peatman.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0130462136/qid=1133530035/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-1444959-1786552?n=507846&s=books&v=glance


               
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2005\12\04@180145 by William Chops Westfield
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> If you're interested in the 18F, don't waste your time
> with Predko's stuff. Get the Peatman book

I didn't like the Peatman book so much, finding it very much a
"here's how to solve some typical embedded programming tasks using
my particular style of program design on PIC18F processors", rather
than something that talked about PICs in much detail.  That has a
certain value, but the Predko book provide a lot more exposure to
the variety of possibilities of PICs.  I guess Peatman was a sort
of "top down" view of the PIC (start with a user feature, figure out a
way to do it on a PIC), whereas Predko was more of a bottom-up approach
(start with a PIC capability and build a user feature around it.)

Both approaches have their problems, of course.  In a way, I think
the Predko book was more "hobbyist" oriented, and the Peatman more
professionally oriented.  But I worried with the Peatman book
that someone who completely read and understood the book might still
have difficulties with the average PIC program that didn't use his
structured assembler pre-processors, or his background timer scheme...

BillW

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