LEGO® Mindstorms™ NXT™ Power Programming: Robotics in C Second Edition, Second edition

I bought this book as an experiment because I really wanted to teach my students to use Java on their NXTs. I was surprised by how well the book explains C programming on the NXT and delighted by the many excellent examples. We were able to get a program running on the first day. We did not use but I was impressed by the many excellent, illustrated examples of construction.C programming is hard for students to grasp and they eventually gave up but this was not the book's fault.

If you're going to use NXC to program the mindstorms brick then you probably want to save yourself some trouble and get this book. The documentation available online is not very good, and many of the things that you find yourself wondering about are explained in this book.Don't expect this book to be some sort of "how to build cool robots" with hundreds of plans of robots you can build. Unlike other books which concentrate on detailing the design of various specific robots, this book is mostly about how to write the software with NXC.So if you just want lots of cool robot plans and not much information about software or NXC, get some other book. But if you are mostly concerned about learning as much as possible about NXC, this is the book for you.

I really like it!

This was way to much for a beginner. But I can see it probably is a good book if you really take the time to read through it. But with FTC moving away from NXT and C programming - I returned it.

I got this book because I wanted to learn a written programming language for the NXT, and I have gone through most of it.I think it is a good book for anyone interested in writing better programs for the NXT. The only improvement is the programs could have more detailed explanations, explaining what each line does, so later you can write your own programs, since you understand how the sample programs work. Overall a good book.

Excellent!

A good book overall, but the content about programming is only 1/3rd of the book.

Book gives a wonderful basis for learning NBC and NXC but the Lego Mindstorms assembly pictures are all black and white and VERY non-descriptive. If it weren't for that I would have given it 5 stars.