> I decided to splash out and purchase a couple of books to help me with
>  learning
>  how to programme the PIC.
>
>  One that caught my eye was "Easy PIC'n" A Beginner's Guide to PIC
>  Microcontrollers.
>  and since im prety much a beginner i thought this would be a great place to
>  start.
>
>  Well then I saw the price tag... 8-(
>
>  $79.00 NZ thats 46.61 US approximateley...
>  the other book i looked at was just as bad, was a tiny little thing with a
>  disk attached
>  for about $89.00NZ....
>
>  I might add that this same company brings in ONE pic, 16F84... and thats it
>  i have not found any other companies that deal in pics but im looking
>  (HARD).
>
>  Ha anyone got any good referance sites or PDF's avalible that may assist me
>  in learning more about the PIC..
>
>  Regards
>  Andrew Hooper
>
>

> I decided to splash out and purchase a couple of books to help me with
> learning
> how to programme the PIC.
>
> One that caught my eye was "Easy PIC'n" A Beginner's Guide to PIC
> Microcontrollers.
> and since im prety much a beginner i thought this would be a great place to
> start.
>
> Well then I saw the price tag... 8-(
>
> $79.00 NZ thats 46.61 US approximateley...
> the other book i looked at was just as bad, was a tiny little thing with a
> disk attached
> for about $89.00NZ....
>
> I might add that this same company brings in ONE pic, 16F84... and thats it
> i have not found any other companies that deal in pics but im looking
> (HARD).
>
> Ha anyone got any good referance sites or PDF's avalible that may assist me
> in learning more about the PIC..
>
> Regards
> Andrew Hooper
>

>Hi Andrew, I am also staggered by the price of some the PIC books, the
>Easy Pic'n book is probably the best beginers Pic book but the price
>is high for a slim book that you will only use when you are first learning
>about the Pic.
>
>One book that will not break the bank (and is quite good) is the Penfold
>book called 'An Introduction to PIC Microcontrollers', in the UK it is
>only 5 UKP. If you have some microprocessor experience already you could do
>worse than study the Microchip 16F84 data sheet, most of it is very clear
>(better than some of the books available). I read it twice, on the first
>read through I made a note of any words I didn't know the meaning of and
>then made a note of the definitions as I found them reading through the
>data sheet, then on the second reading of the data sheet I had a list Pic
>terms with definitions for most of them.
>
>
>On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Andrew Hooper wrote:
>
>> I decided to splash out and purchase a couple of books to help me with
>> learning
>> how to programme the PIC.
>>
>> One that caught my eye was "Easy PIC'n" A Beginner's Guide to PIC
>> Microcontrollers.
>> and since im prety much a beginner i thought this would be a great place

>> start.
>>
>> Well then I saw the price tag... 8-(
>>
>> $79.00 NZ thats 46.61 US approximateley...
>> the other book i looked at was just as bad, was a tiny little thing with
a
>> disk attached
>> for about $89.00NZ....
>>
>> I might add that this same company brings in ONE pic, 16F84... and thats