Quote Originally Posted by HenrikOlsson View Post
Hi Martin,
Welcome to the forum!
You don't strictly need a development board, you can easily get away with a solderless breadboard and some jumperwires. With that said a development board like the EasyPIC series of boards can be nice but they come packed with a lot of features and "settings" that you may not need and that MAY add a bit of confusion when you're getting started (don't let that put you off though, they are really nice boards).

If you get a EasyPIC 7 for example it already contains a programmer so you don't really need anything else but if you decide to go the solderless breadboard route then something like the PICKit3 is a good option.

Since you are here I guess you're going to use PBP as your compiler so you obviously need that as well.

/Henrik.
so if i get the easypic 7 then i dont need a separate programmer?
if i just get a breadboard apart from pickit 3 what other good programmers are there?
pbp compiler?i dont know what software i need,im looking for advice on what is good and what to stay away from.
if i can get advice on good kit then i can do what i usually do and teach myself.
if i get easypic 7 does that come with compiler?