Hello,

I'm quite new to PIC programming. Up to now, I was BASIC STAMPing. For me, it was a good start, for sure. Today, just because of the price difference, I choose to go for PICs.

First I had to find wich PIC I would use. I then read lots of webpages and found tutorials using the 16F84 or 16F84/A. A few weeks later, I found out that this PIC was more expensive and had less functionalities than the 16F88. So I changed my mind and went for this one.

I built the MicroChip AN589 programmer (just to make sure it would work!), I started to program. And here I am now.

After having read lots of posts in this forum, I noticed that lots (if not all) of problems can be solved by reading your PIC's data sheet.

This makes me think that data sheets may not be comprehensive for beginners since other far more clever people experience same issues.

Is there any method to read data sheets? Do other documentations (kind of application notes) exist?

My mother tongue is french, can I find the data sheets in my language somewhere?