Programming & Customizing PICmicro Microcontrollers, by Myke Predko
, is probably the best book out there for someone who is starting out with the PIC series of microcontrollers from Microchip. I used Myke’s book as both a tutorial and reference when I created my PIC RGB Video Display. Since then, I have referred back to this book countless times even when working with other microcontrollers, like Atmel’s AVR family, because it contains so much useful architecture-independent technical information. I have referred to this book for information about topics including LCD interfacing, debouncing switches, RS-232 serial interfaces, and multiplexed LED drivers. As a technical reference it easily surpasses the majority of AVR books that are out there.
The book is starting to show it’s age by not including some of the latest PIC micros in the examples (like the PIC16F628), but the code is easily ported to newer/faster/better microcontrollers, a good learning excercise in itself.
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As a beginner i find Myke Predko’s books pretty hopeless.
He sure seems to know his stuff but I have looked at many of his books and he just
cannot write it an easy to understand manner.
I know many rave about his books but i just avoid them. To me they are very
frustrating.
There’s a new (3rd) edition that came out last year. Of course, just 2-3 months after I bought the old one (2ndEd, that’s pictured above).
I’ve got this book as well. The spine started to separate on it. That is how much use it has gotten.