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Your best step to get started is to purchase a Picstart plus.
This is a basic programer that covers all of the devices up to 40 pins in DIP packages. Next, get a few 16F628's. These 18pin devices include a serial port, internal clock, internal reset and a PWM. There are many projects that can be easily built with this start.
For books, there are a variety of introductory pic books but the best start may be the appnotes that are available on the microchip website. These are tutorials and miniprojects on using PIC's in a variety of ways.
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