Instant Lego Mindstorm Ev3 Paperback – September 3, 2013

My husband read this book as an introduction to the EV3 ( previously we used the NXT ) and found it very useful as a starting point

I downloaded this book to help me get my First Lego League team up to speed on the new EV3 for this season. As some other reviewers note, this book is for use with the EDUCATION kit of the EV3, not the retail kit. I was trying to follow the programming examples and, like other reviewers have noted, got frustrated with the difficulty viewing the images of the programming. Even on my iPad Kindle app, I could not get a good picture. Frustrating. The book introduction indicates that you can download the code from the publisher website. It took me a bit to figure out (go to publisher site, register, search the book title, go to the webpage for the title, underneath the image of the cover there is a link "code files". Download that zip file!!! All the programs discussed in each chapter are there. Huge timesaver for me as a coach trying to go through and debug and check for me and then the kids when we are just getting started with the new EV3. With a group of elementary students, something I can use to demonstrate that works is better than hours of coding and debugging. Saves lots of frustration and disappointment. Thanks for having the code available. Saves me a full day of coding/debugging, because I always have coding errors that drive me crazy!

This book is a really good one which starts step by step for a beginner. and gets you to an advanced progeaming level.

quite a learning curve

I was so excited to finally buy a book about my newly purchased Mindstorms EV3 kit, and finally get some understanding about how to program it, only to find out that I didn't have the right LEGO KIT!!!Yes, this is a warning to all readers out there: If you bought the retail home version of the LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Kit (i.e., the one sold here on Amazon and basically every LEGO store, toy store, department store and every other website on the internet), then this book is NOT FOR YOU. In order to build and program the robots in this particularly useless book, you must be have the Education version of the Mindstorms EV3 Kit, which is only sold to schools and educators. Now, why this guy would not (a) explain this on the cover and all information available about his book, and (b) consider building robots in the book which could be built using EITHER version of the EV3 kit, I have no idea. I think he is either oblivious to the fact that there is a retail version out there and it is the only version available to the general public, or he simply doesn't care about any of his potential readers who are not students or educators at this particular time.Bottom line: Wait for another author to write a book in the future, or buy the education version of the EV3 kit FIRST. Otherwise, prepare for some major frustration.

Item was delivered on time and is as expected. Definitely helped my son prepare for upcoming FLL season.

The EV3 set is new this year, and I was dying for some expert to write a book on it. This was the 1st book I bought on EV3 and eventually also bought Lego Mindstorms EV3 Laboratory. Both of these books are complementary.I found this book useful and helpful. The Kindle edition is easy to read. The quick robot in this book truly is quick to build. In other older books, instructions for quick build robots are anything but quick to build.It went through many basic components of programs that can be mixed and matched with each other. Gary does describe these as recipes but he does leave enough for the kids to figure out. He has a correcting gyro turn algorithm but proportionality is not included here but in the ultrasonic section (if I remember right). So a kid would have to figure out how to include those "proportional" correction components in their gyro turn algorithm.I appreciate that - since ultimately these books are for kids to learn but not entirely be spoon fed. I think this book accomplishes that. It does leave you wanting more -- but gives enough for an enterprising kid to "discover" more himself.

great help good book working on lego league projects

Nicely written. Takes programming to a whole new level. Rich and powerful content. Let's see what we are able to bring.

Just started to look though it, but so far it looks great. Its amassing the info people have to share.

fast shippingperfect packagingmaterial OKfriendly sellercorrect paymentsuper recommendedsurely I will carry out new purchasesthank You A+++

Good book but it's aimed at the education version of mind storms EV3 which has a few different parts, rather than the retail version. It doesn't say this in the description

Quite stimulating to assemble parts. It is dynamic to make into different models. But no charging battery detail before sale.