"Hello nedtron it appears that you have not posted on our forums in several weeks, why not take a few moments to ask a question, help provide a solution or just engage in a conversation with another member in any one of our forums?"

OK You asked for it . . .

Rehashing command syntax and data sheets seems redundant.

A book of good practical "real world" examples with code, concise explanation and "real" schematics would probably be useful and helpful.

I don't mean "Hello World" nor half baked Myke Predko projects.

Something more on the order of Don Lancaster's TTL Cookbook might work.

Perhaps a PIC Heathkit on steroids would do the trick?

Good practical examples provide a solid foundation and may communicate nuisances either to subtle or to verbose for logistic text.

Perhaps "PIC Micros for Dummies" would work?

Every programming text that I have seen neglects the very effective and infamous Bill Gates approach to programming "The Art of Stealing Other Peoples Code and Compiling It".

Personally, I can always steal and compile faster.

The Internet has made steal n' compile technology a reality.

I have seen countless engineers searching the Internet for drivers, active controls and source code.

GNU public domain code is the cat's meow!

A federal court found that the Pentium II had stolen embedded Cyrix code and inadvertently included the Cyrix trademark statement! (dumb)

National Semiconductor bought Cyrix and collected the big bucks from Intel. (smart)

Now I know that their are prima donnas who think that every byte of PIC Basic code that that they compile is a virgin holy creation of the highest order deserving Code Protect, Serialization and encryption techniques not yet devised by lowly Microchip.

However, I see it as the PIC game.

Parker Brothers gave us Monopoly and Microchip gave us PIC.

Both are great games allowing players to devise their individual strategies.

There are other great games such as Visual Basic, C++, FORTRAN and Assembly.

However, at the end of the day, Parker Brothers (Hasbro), Microsoft, Borland and Microchip are the real winners!

And yes, we were well entertained . . .

Or it least I was . . .

I kind of like this title “Steal This Code & Give the Bucks to Charity”.

Perhaps, I have over elaborated and the title "RTFM" might just work after all?

Got to go, there's some USB HID code looking awfully good!

Ned