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Practice and application-oriented approach in education is
important, and some research on active learning and cooperative
problem-solving have shown that a student will learn faster and
develop communication skill, leadership and team work through
these methods. This paper presents a study of student preference
and performance while learning the microcontroller subject with
a 2-day curriculum that emphasized on hands-on approach. The
curriculum uses the PIC16F877A microcontroller and
participants learned to develop basic circuits and several other
applications. Programming was completed on the MPLAB
platform. Results show that participants had better
understanding in this subject after attending the hands-on
course.