The Ultimate Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS Robots - Build & Program Smart Robots for STEM Learning, Competitions & Home Automation Projects

Your view of this book may vary based on your intent. The publisher's text on Amazon when it describes what's in the book starts the list with: "hands-on robot projects, with complete building instructions...." I had hoped that would be a major focus of the book -- a series of "cool robots" that I could build. Instead, the robot in the book is quite simple, and not additive to the multiple robots LEGO describes in its various kits. The programming language with the kits is fairly simple and flexible -- I wanted more robot ideas, since I find the physical construction of robust robots to be the challenging part (as you may guess, I come from Microsoft, not Boeing). On the other hand, if you're a software junky and want to see a half-dozen semi to fairly well-baked programming language alternatives to what LEGO offers, this book may be for you.