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As some of you know I've been working on a Lego Mindstorms book for Java programmers. The official release date is March 15, 2002 so it seems like a good time to announce it. The intent of this book is to get Java programmers interested in Lego (...) (22 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics) !
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| | Re: New Book - Programming Lego Mindstorms with Java
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Hi all, As some of you also know, there is a companion book to Mario and Giulio Ferrari's book "Building Robots with Lego Mindstorms" coming out at about the same time (not to rain on your announcement Brian ;-) titled "Programming Lego Mindstorms (...) (22 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Brian The list of the covered topics makes your book very promising. I'm going to pre-order it right now. Good luck! Mario (...) a (...) programmers (...) Lego (...) Bean) (...) robots (...) (22 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Thanks for the kind words Mario! I just want to mention to others who might be ordering to please use the Amazon Associates link on our leJOS web page: (URL) profits generated through this program will be used to obtain a domain name and hold (...) (22 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Sounds great! Can't wait to get it. Later, Gary (22 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Dario, I thought your book was supposed to come out last year ,but then you said it was cancelled by the publisher. Why did they decide to cancel it and then renew it? (...) (22 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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In lugnet.announce, Brian Bagnall writes: As some of you know I've been working on a Lego Mindstorms book for Java programmers. The official release date is March 15, 2002 so it seems like a good time to announce it. The intent of this book is to (...) (22 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Michelle, Yes it was supposed to come out last year - it was delayed but now it's nearly completed. In addition to myself the author list is as follows (to give credit where it's due): Guilio Ferrari, Jamie Waldinger, Soren Hilmer, Jurgen (...) (22 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Yes, it's 100% compatible with the latest versions of the Java SDK. I use 1.3.1 myself and it works great. There were originally some problems with the SDK 1.4 beta but those have been worked out. (...) (22 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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I assume with the offfical 1.4 release? I have had several problems with the offical release including stability problems, incompatible code (some wierd 1.2 stuff), slow performance, and hanging event threads (they never return from calling the (...) (22 years ago, 16-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I have made the necessary modifications to leJOS (there was a clash with the new assert keyword) and then tried the Java SDK 1.4 with a few tests, it worked. What you have to do is use the CVS version and add "-target 1.1" as an option to (...) (22 years ago, 16-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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You have to wonder how the SDK could possibly do that. The only opportunity I can see for it doing this is with the binary files javac and java, but I doubt they have auto-update features. Maybe the applet JVM has this? p.s. Kudos for reading the (...) (22 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Awesome book, got it, read it cover-to-cover. Well written, good projects, very comprehensive. Kinda took the wind out of my sails, really, knowing somebody else had already done so much! Still I guess if you want to produce a really awesome robot (...) (22 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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