Why did Chuck write a book about PicBasic but also sells MBasic and Atom?
Many people, including Chuck when he started the book, don’t realize how much work a book takes to complete. Chuck had published a few articles for Nuts & Volts magazine back in July 1998. LLH Publishing approached Chuck about writing a book on PICs. Chuck decided to take the opportunity and create a book about programming PICs in Basic with the PicBasic compiler at the heart of it. The Publisher didn’t want the book to get lost amongst the numerous Visual Basic books so the title was changed to include PicBasic or “Programming Microchip PICs with PicBasic”. The book tried to present programming PICs in a general sense but PicBasic was still at the heart of it. The book took much longer than planned, 2 1/2 years to be exact, so by the time it was released, MBasic and the Atom module were introduced by Basic Micro. Chuck helped do some early beta testing for Basic Micro and was a big promoter of the Atom modules. The Atom modules picked up where the Basic Stamps left off and gave a new
