Reviews for Maximum LEGO NXT : Building Robots with Java Brains 2nd Edition

1. good, but some editing mistakes

   Rated 4 out of 5 stars, July 12st, 2008

   I bought this book not long ago, and I've got through the first few chapters.
   I can definitely recommend this to anyone who wants to do a little more with their NXT and build some more interesting robots. It's a great way to start playing around with some ideas if you're used to a certain amount of programming and find the graphical programming language that comes with the NXT just too restricting.
   
   However there are a number of pretty weird mistakes with this book. References to things that aren't there (but presumably were in drafts), errors in the way you set up java and eclipse, and rather unclear diagrams. I have a certain amount of experience with java, so I was able to set things up fairly quickly. But I can imagine many people getting frustrated.
   
   I would have given this 5 stars were it not for the mistakes. This is the kind of thing that could be fixed with a second edition which is properly edited and thought-out.
   
   There is also a forum on the lejos website where you can ask any questions, so in some ways the book really is just the beginning of what will hopefully be a long and interesting road.