I have decided that I'd like to become familiar with programming PICs, from a hobbyist perspective. I am an EE, but have not done any programming in the past 15 years. I do NOT have a desire to pursue projects of extreme complexity, nor do I plan to become anything more than an occasional hobbyist (a project or two a year). That said, what language would you programming veterans recommend I use for my purposes? Ideally I would like to use a language/tool that I can find all of the necessary (and complete) commands in a few pages worth of documentation, with hopefully no more than a dozen or so more pages worth of command-explanations (I took a quick look at my old C programming book which is 280 pages long, and I dare say it would take me days to use it to program a simple logic circuit into a PIC Ü).
Also, are there any particular PIC-kits that you'd recommend?
BTW, my first project will need to load random numbers into memory (say 2000 addresses needed), and then be able to pull those numbers out of memory and display them to a user. I give you this brief info only in case it's the case that some PICs don't have 2000+ memory spaces available - I really have no knowledge in this area.
Thanks for your help!
Also, are there any particular PIC-kits that you'd recommend?
BTW, my first project will need to load random numbers into memory (say 2000 addresses needed), and then be able to pull those numbers out of memory and display them to a user. I give you this brief info only in case it's the case that some PICs don't have 2000+ memory spaces available - I really have no knowledge in this area.
Thanks for your help!