Microcontroller Theory and Applications with the PIC18F

This book was one of the best textbooks I've ever used for a course. It It covers everything needed with plenty of examples to understand the concepts of the course.

This is a great book (especially if you attend the school where the author teaches and everyone teaches from this book). It is easy to follow and understand. There are step by step tutorials for using MPLAB IDE and programming the PIC18F in the back and an instruction set with helpful examples. The tutorials are fool proof, however they refer to MPLAB IDE v.8 so if you have the MPLAB X IDE (compatible for Macs), it is pretty different.

This book basically guide my entire semester, some program tutorials should show more instructions and codes.