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Re: O'Reilly Mindstorms Book
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Thu, 18 Feb 1999 21:38:29 GMT
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Sorry for cloggin the list...
Why not have a book-related website, give the URL to the site in the
book, and post the links on the site? That way, the links could be
updated occasionally, adding value for everyone.
And it's not like most of the links are *that* hard to find...
Steve
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 20:50:03 GMT, lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Jonathan
Knudsen) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Several people have expressed interest in seeing
> a CDROM packaged with the Mindstorms book.
> Such a CDROM would contain things like NQC,
> legOS, RcxCC, and links to Mindstorms
> Web pages.
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> My gut feeling is that there's no point: the software
> will be out of date soon after you publish the
> thing, and it's all available online anyhow. I can
> see there would be some value in packaging the
> URLs for the book so you wouldn't have to retype
> them, but it's hard to justify adding to the cost
> of the book for that reason alone.
>
> My question is this: to CD or not to CD? Would you
> prefer to see a CD bundled with the book, or would
> you just prefer to have URLs listed in the book and
> get stuff online? Please respond to me personally so
> we don't clog up the list. I'll summarize the results
> if you're interested.
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
>
> --
> Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
>
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: O'Reilly Mindstorms Book
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| (...) That'd be so cool! And ORA is already pretty much almost there for that sort of thing...check out for example: (URL) the left, there are sub-pages called Full Description About the Author Table of Contents Index Examples Reader Reviews How to (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: O'Reilly Mindstorms Book
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| (...) And the errata could be posted. No offense intended, everyone makes minor mistakes sometimes and some things change. One of the best (imho) Flight Simulator books, for example, has a many-page errata sheet available on the web as the author (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: O'Reilly Mindstorms Book
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| (...) Thanks, Steve. I was about to suggest exactly the same thing when I noticed that somebody had beaten to it. Glad to see that I can have ideas which coincide with what other people think every once in a while. :) (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | O'Reilly Mindstorms Book
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| Hello, Several people have expressed interest in seeing a CDROM packaged with the Mindstorms book. Such a CDROM would contain things like NQC, legOS, RcxCC, and links to Mindstorms Web pages. My gut feeling is that there's no point: the software (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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