Where did you learn electronics?

[templecorran]

I bought a PICkit2 (priceless at getting you up & running quick) & then started hanging out on the associated PIC forums - for my needs there's not a lot of depth of knowledge needed. I'd say forget 'assembly' & go with a higher language more suited to PICs ...PICBAsic.

I agree in part, PIC2kit is a very good way to go, plus you get loads of useful utilities and a programmer to boot.
Regarding assembler .. Yes you can exist without it, I do, but you'll need it to debug the code, cos that's all you get to see when you look inside there.

hth
John