I've had a year or so from programming, and even then I was still very much a newbie, and had a lot of help from you guys and gals here.

For me one of the area's I find hard to get my head round is the config of the basics such as making ports digital, turning on/off analogue pins, etc. I look at the data sheets for most of the PICs I use and I might as well be looking at somthing writen in Vulcan ! I also think that I'm mnot alone, and as such would love to have a point of refference to make things a little clearer. A sticky, or a link to some page on the site would be great

I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard, as it seems that most pics have things in common, for example most pics with A/D convertors, use the same pins on PORTA, so, for example it would be simple to give examples for setting PORT A up for whatever combinations you could get (with in reason)

Eg to use the first A/D on pin 1 and set all others to digital use "command" value X, to use two A/D on pin 1 and 2, with the others set to digital use "command" value Y

Having this sticky / link to web page would also help seasoned members by not having to repeat answers and hopefully it would help newbies learn quicker

Just a suggestion, but would anyone be willing to create such a post.