IT'S ALLLLLLLLIIIIIIIIVVVVVEEEEEEEEEE!!!
I just wrote, built, and programmed my first PIC program using the book I got for my birthday and the kit that I ordered shortly thereafter. It makes a little LED on the circuit board blink on and off, and I'm about as excited about this as I was after doing something similar for the first time back in my microcontrollers course in college: *GLEE!!!*