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    Books —The WordMeister
   *If* I could only buy one MindStorms book, which is better, Dave Baum's or Jonathan Knudsen's? Does anyone have both and can compare them? --The WordMeister Doug Wilcox WordSmith Digital Document Services 403 VFW Drive Rockland, MA 02370 (...) (25 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Books —Ben Williamson
     (...) I think the point here is that they're different. You should choose the one that best suits your purposes. I'll be getting both of them. :) - Ben. ---...--- Ben Williamson benw@pobox.com (URL) (25 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Books —Joel Shafer
     Can either book be found at major physical bookstores yet? (I know that they are at amazon.com) (...) Joel Shafer joel@connect.net (25 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Books —Jonathan Knudsen
     My book was released less than a week ago. Copies are probably just getting to physical bookstores as we speak. I just got a stack (direct from O'Reilly) today. I think Ben's right: buy 'em both. But of course I'm biased. And hey, thanks to whoever (...) (25 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Books —Dave Baum
   (...) My book isn't out yet, but its getting pretty close. From what I've seen, its clear that Jonathan and I took very different approaches to writing about Mindstorms. Jonathan covers a number of advanced topics (such as pbFORTH) that I don't (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
 

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