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Microcontroller Handbook, 2E

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This book (despite being a 2nd edition) is full of blatant typos and errors. In addition, the author seems to know just enough to hack projects together but not quite enough to write a book. There are many factual errors and misleading opinions.

This book is really just a small collection of specific PIC projects the author somehow managed to get working. If one of the projects (as presented) is useful to you, perhaps the price of the book is justified. Otherwise, you're better off with back issues of your favorite electronics magazine. As a general introduction to microcontrollers this book doesn't even come close. If you're interested specifically in the PIC series, you're much better off with one of the David Benson books. If you're interested in other microcontrollers, keep looking...

I bought this book under the pretense that it would help me understand the basics of the microcontroller (I am a design engineer with B.S. in Electronics Engineering Technology. I have programmed many z80s, but I wanted to learn how to program an "all in one" microcontroller). The authors does explain the basics of digital theory, microcontroller layout, and integration with the microcontroller quite well, but he totally blows it in the project/programming section. It's like he simply copied someone elses code without any guide to why the code was written in a particular way. Also, if this is a beginners guide to microcontrollers, he needs to change the projects in the book or change the name of the book from beginneer to advanced. There are only three or four projects and they are entirely to complex for the begineer to comprehend. I was extremely dissapointed in this book.

Thanks for sending me the book, but I have a problem. The CD-ROM is broken, maybe on the way here. Can You please send me another CD-ROM. Thanks You very much.. German Urena Barboza