Last year, I made a little progess with PICs, but not much. Now, I am trying again and remember why I gave up: total confusion.

I have a working 16F84A on a homemade breadboard assembly. I have a 16 x 2 LCD to which I have connected a Modern Device serial backpack.

I have MPLAB version 8.89 installed, and a PICKit 2. I have PBP3 Gold installed.

Would someone please give me some Hello World code that runs, and a connection scheme? I think if I can just get one thing working, I can move on from there.

Thanks.