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Maximum Lego NXT: Building Robots with Java Brains

By: Brian Bagnall
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Variant Press
ISBN: 0973864915
ISBN-13: 9780973864915
Released: 22 May 2007
RRP: £22.99
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good, but some editing mistakes - By: M. Bull, 21 Jul 2008
I bought this book not long ago, & 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 & 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 & 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 & eclipse, & 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 & thought-out.

There is also a forum on the lejos website where you can ask any questions, so in some ways the book reallly is just the beginning of what will hopefully be a long & interesting road.