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| I am not new to programming, but I am new to Mindstroms. I am wondering which book is the better one to get: 1) Unofficial Guide to Lego Mindstorms (O'Reilly) 2) Dave Baum's Definite Guide to Lego Mindstorms You can email me personally to keep (...) (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Actually, I wouldn't mind hearing some honest reviews of both books, especially from people who have both. Anyone? Anyone? I went with Dave Baum's because I was told it had better description of building technique, which is where I'm weak. But (...) (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I have both books mentioned. I found the "Unofficial Guide to Lego Mindstorms (O'Reilly)" book to be more informative for myself. It talks about quite a few programing languages in enough detail to give you a good idea of what's involved. (...) (24 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Regarding reviews, I won't try to influence you. However, the books have been reviewed before: (URL) reviews at Slashdot and LUGNET are pretty informative. No doubt there are plenty of other reviews if you dig a little deeper. Regarding (...) (24 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Hi. This is my second mail to the group... and dont ask me what happened to the first one, I honestly dot know. Anyways, here's hte scenario. I'm tryina make a biped from Mindstorms, but I dont know where to start. Any suggestions ? Waqas (24 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Jin Sato has a good one at (URL) Click on English in the upper left corner. -- Bob Fay rfay@we.mediaone.net The Shop (URL) Khalid" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:015b01c0551f$1a....edu.pk... (...) the (...) I (...) (24 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | Re: Book question
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| (...) The books have different strengths. There are lots of reviews out there - see (URL) for a few. I'd add a third book into the list, though..."Extreme Mindstorms" by myself, Mike Gasperi, Ralph Hempel, and Luis Villa. If you want to dive into (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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