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Languages used in this book include Arduino/Wiring, PHP, and Processing, but it was easy for me to see how they could be translated into other languages if you are not familiar with these three. Lots of coding examples.

This book starts with "Who This Book Is For", "What You Need To Know", "Contents of This Book", "On Buying Parts", "Using Code Examples", "Using Circuit Examples", and "Acknowledgments". Make sure you check out page XIII with the blue triangle with the exclamation point in it. Important...

I do not worry too much about errors until they make me feel like the author[s] may not really be expert in the area they are writing about but all these projects look good to me. The author claims to be a professor teaching students this stuff. Huh, who knew a professor actually knew anything. For that reason alone you should buy this book. :)

The book is well balanced and starts with The Tools, Chapter One. It is extremely well written and very useful. The Tools, Chapter Seven is extremely well written and very useful. Having two entirely different chapters called The Tools is a first for me.

This book is light reading. I read it in four days, just a couple of hours a day. The style is light and easy to enjoy. The flow of the style makes it hard to believe that multiple authors are involved in the writing. It seems like one person wrote it. The author gives credit to all his students, other professors, his dog, etc. but the flow of the book and writing style make it seem like the work of one person.
I liked the following chapters quite a bit:
Chapter 2 The Simplest Network
Chapter 6 Wireless Communication
Chapter 9 Identification
The best chapters were hard to determine, all the chapters were excellent. Here is the one I thought was best:

Chapter 8 How to locate almost anything
Of course I have a 27 year old son who can not find anything, so I might be a little biased here.

This book is worth 5 stars and every penny charged for it, taking everything into account. This book will pay for itself.

I also liked the source: The Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University was interesting academically. I never heard of it before reading the acknowledgments but might find my way there someday. The more words in the names in a school, the better it must be. Fifteen [15] is a lot of words for one program
Well done.

Definitive, in the sense that a simple to complex text in this subject matter could be.

Frederick J Eccher Jr
MBA
M.S. Management of Information Systems
A.B. Psychology
B.A. Biology
CIO, Community Partners
President, Board of Directors, Saint Louis Visual Basic Users Group
rick@stlvbug.net