Tutorial book for PIC programming?

[ultra]

i am very interested in learning at least the basics of PIC programming.  basically, i have a box i'm going to build that has various kinds of distortion and a compressor, and instead of patching each device with cables, i would like an lcd and a programmed pic to route the audio.  does anybody know of a good book for beginners that will teach the basics of the code (c is preferred) as well as give me project examples for pic programming?  i know visual basic fairly well but i have never done any programming in c, so the book would have to give a decent amount of focus on the language as well as pic related example projects.  i looked at the 123 pic projects for the evil genius or whatever it's called, but that book got terrible reviews.

thanks!

[stryd_one]

www.piclist.com :)

[audiocommander]

free programming eBooks

http://www.programmingebooks.tk/

very good complete PIC book, ASM focus:

http://www.mikroe.com/en/books/picbook/0_Uvod.htm

also read the PIC's datasheet!

and of course:

http://www.ucapps.de/mios_download.html

http://www.ucapps.de/mios_c.html (bottom of page)

http://www.ucapps.de/cmios_fun.html

http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=application_development

and (most important of all!):

- think about an easy to reach first project (eg instead of complicated DSP stuff, program your own midi-Filter box) and just do it. Don't think about the top of the mountain, just start climbing it (sais Nietzsche, not me ;D )

Cheers,

Michael

[Jidis]

Ultra,

If you've done no PIC work, the "Easy Microcontrol'n" book from Square One (http://www.sq-1.com/) is pretty easy to get through. It will only take you through some 16F84 stuff, and some of it is probably dated, but I still like it. ;)

I like Predko's "Digital Electronics Demystified" book a lot too (very inexpensive), but don't care for the Programming & Customizing PIC Microcontrollers one I bought. It's poorly organized and hard to navigate (also a bit dated now).

George

[ultra]

thank you all for the suggestions.  this should be plenty of information to get started with :).