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Chapter 3 / Microcontrollers and PIC Programming
FIGURE 3.10
One button compile and
programming using
MicroCode Studio.

main editor window, showing you which program line is current-
ly being executed by the host microcontroller. You can even tog-
gle multiple breakpoints and step through your PICBasic code line
by line.

Using the MicroCode Studio ICD can really accelerate program
development. It’s also a lot of fun and a great tool for learning
more about programming PIC microcontrollers.

Summary

Now that the concept of programming and compiling code for
microcontrollers has been covered, it will be easy to program the
robots in the following chapters. Using MicroCode Studio for cre-
ating your source code, compiling the code, and programming PIC
microcontrollers makes development much faster.

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