Programming 32-bit Microcontrollers in C

Day 1 The Adventure Begins

The Plan

This will be our first experience with the PIC32 32-bit microcontroller and, for some of you, the first project with the MPLAB® IDE Integrated Development Environment and the MPLAB C32 language suite. Even if you have never heard of the C language, you might have heard of the famous “Hello World!” programming example. If not, let me tell you about it.

Since the very first book on the C language, written by Kernighan and Ritchie several decades ago, every decent C language book has featured an example program containing a single statement to display the words “Hello World” on the computer screen. Hundreds, if not thousands, of books have respected this tradition, and I don’t want my books to be the exception. ...