New Diploma Qualificaton from the PICBASIC.NET Academy.

[duncan303]

Radical I know but lets look at the facts.

The forum already answers questions for coursework set by educational institutions around the world, the big beef is that nobody gets paid....... well.......

Who better to set the lesson plans............... the motley crew of PICBASIC fans.:D :D

Lets write our own course and offer it for validation with various national education bodies. Students pay PICBASIC.NET directly just as other open learning bodies operate.

And wow we don't have to send out a course pack, Melabs do that for us!!


And REMEMBER you heard it here first........!! ................... mind you I'm too lazy to do a search on the forum to see if this is a fact.



and before anybody else argues I'm self electing myself the post of Janitor...:D............cos I can't even get smilies to appear in my threads :(


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[mackrackit]

Lesson #1
RTFM

Lesson #2
RTFD

Lesson #3
Repeat Lessons #1 and #2

It is a start. That should take care of the first semester.

[chrisshortys]

I would do a course If one was available, I'm having to do ASM as part of my Electronics HNC and I would love to have a seperate qualification in the subject.

[rxforspeed]

I would do a course If one was available, I'm having to do ASM as part of my Electronics HNC and I would love to have a seperate qualification in the subject.

Microchip has some great ASM tutorials for their MCUs. I'm not on my notebook so I don't currently have the link-but I'd post it here if you'd be interested. I've reviewed the 14-bit core instruction set (35 ASM instructions as opposed to 33 for the 12-bit core MCUs-only 31 are the same), but I'd still rather use PBP. It's just so much easier for me. My head's been kinda clogged with attempts to remember formulas and get a couple of classes taken care of over the past week or so, so I regrettably haven't had much time for this forum. If nobody else directs you there, I'll post the link after I check my notebook and verify it...

[mister_e]

Could be interesting for some...
http://www.mikroe.com/en/books/picmcubook/
http://www.winpicprog.co.uk/pic_tutorial.htm
http://www.gooligum.com.au/tut_baseline.html
http://www.amqrp.org/elmer160/index.html

enjoy!

[RussMartin]

Microchip also produces a lot of educational material for their annual MASTERs events. It's really great, well-presented, and a good source of both instruction and ideas.

[duncan303]

I think this was probably another of my ill-conceived ideas, shooting from the hip so to speak. There are a number of well presented educative sites provided by enthusiasts, as Steve and others have indicated, these sites also help to demonstrate some of the issues that can lead to style of resentment sometimes manifested on this forum.

The key word above being enthusiast, to my mind anybody who spends more than a few weeks on this forum probably suffers from some form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (ergo: enthusiast :)) with a good helping of mental self flagellation being rewarded by euphoria in making something, however trivial, work. Forgive me for the over use of referencing but I genuinely think it might be true!

and on the other hand we have certificate collectors, some, I would suggest, a resultant of PDP’s Company Personal Development Plans. After a while one simply runs out of Validated course choices! Knitting, Stitching and Weaving begins to look very promising! Equally as useful as the certificate in feigning a heart attack in the workplace :D………. especially if you find yourself stranded, naked up the himalayas and after a few days being approached by an inquisitive solitary sheep! After dispatching her using your certificate in humane abattoir practices and consuming her using your certificate in extreme survival techniques, you can use your Certificate in Knitting, Stitching and Weaving to manufacture yourself a nice matching set of hat and woolly underpants!

In the Uk one only needs a PGCE (Post Graduate Certificate in Education) or a Cert ED ( Certificate in Education) to have the authority to offer a course (not necessarily designed by the same) to the central Department of Education for accredited Validation. The templates for "Distance learning" course writing are pretty straightforward and relatively bog standard.

So The original planned idea was that all the ingredients are here a bunch of highly skilled enthusiasts together with some very adept programming minds servicing certificate hunters and youngsters mingled with a splattering of hobbyists, all married together with...... Oh bugger...... I guessed there was a going to be a problem sooner or later...............we don't have anybody who is actually qualified to teach :D

or do we?






p.s. Yikes I have also just now realised that this sheep is almost certainly a Buddhist reincarnation and one should be creating a shelter so that one could both live together in harmony, and that perhaps the certificate in Linguistics and Ethology may be of more use!! And.. you can knit yourself whole seasonal coordinated collections!!!!!!

Not sure which is observed to be more strange, setting up home and learning to communicate with a sheep or a PIC18F series………….mmmmmmmm

I’ll get my coat……………


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[RussMartin]

. . . if you find yourself stranded, naked up the Himalayas and after a few days being approached by an inquisitive solitary sheep! After dispatching her using your Certificate in Humane Abattoir Practices and consuming her using your Certificate in Extreme Survival Techniques, you can use your Certificate in Knitting, Stitching and Weaving to manufacture yourself a nice matching set of hat and woolly underpants!

. . . but you left out the Certificate in Knackery, so you can get tallow to make candles (using another Certificate) and the Certificate in Tannery so you can make a sheepskin vest and buskins!

. . . Oh bugger . . . I guessed there was a going to be a problem sooner or later . . . we don't have anybody who is actually qualified to teach :D

or do we?

Oops! --watch your language, unless you have your Certificate in Buggery. (I'd like to see the synopsis of that course.)

I suspect there are members out there who are actually qualified to teach. I've done so, over the years, at the trade school/junior college as well as college/university levels. About 15 years ago, I even designed and taught a course on vacuum tubes.

Remember, without vacuum, you really do have nothing.

[hardcore]

"mister_e Could be interesting for some...
http://www.mikroe.com/en/books/picmcubook/
http://www.winpicprog.co.uk/pic_tutorial.htm
http://www.gooligum.com.au/tut_baseline.html
http://www.amqrp.org/elmer160/index.html"
It is like big jump for old frog (me) in right direction.
Best Regards

[Charles Linquis]

Darrel Taylor would have a couple dozen PhD's by now.

[Darrel Taylor]

Ha Ha!

I'd settle for a BS.

Oh wait, I get that every day. :D