programming a robot

hi

i am currebtly in the process of building a small simple robot with 4 light sensors and 4 micro switches and 2 motors.

i am having trouble getting my head around starting my programme for this, i am using a PIC micro proccessor, if anyone could help it would be greatly apprecited.

thanks

maybe see the advice on bitfields from this thread > http://cboard.cprogramming.com/c-pro...g-numbers.html