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Programming PIC Microcontrollers in BASIC - mikroElektronika
Chapter 1: The Basics
● Introduction
● 1.1 Why BASIC?
● 1.2 Choosing the right PIC for the task
● 1.3 A word about code writing
● 1.4 Writing and compiling your program
● 1.5 Loading program to microcontroller
● 1.6 Running the program
● 1.7 Troubleshooting
Introduction
Simplicity and ease which higher programming languages bring in, as well as broad
application of microcontrollers today, were reasons to incite some companies to adjust and
upgrade BASIC programming language to better suit needs of microcontroller
programming. What did we thereby get? First of all, developing applications is faster and
easier with all the predefined routines which BASIC brings in, whose programming in
assembly would take the largest amount of time. This allows programmer to concentrate on
solving the important tasks without wasting his time on, say, code for printing on LCD
display.
To avoid any confusion in the further text, we need to clarify several terms we will be using
frequently throughout the book:
Programming language is a set of commands and rules according to which we write the
program. There are various programming languages such as BASIC, C, Pascal, etc. There is
plenty of resources on BASIC programming language out there, so we will focus our
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