Mike McRoberts - Beginning Arduino

Hello All,
This is my first time posting to this forum, so I hope I am doing this right !!!!
I just ordered the Mike McRoberts book, Beginning Arduino from Amazon...
The main reason I ordered this book is that it had a lot of very good reviews,,,
I just hope the reviews are on target. I am brand new to Arduino, some programming
many years ago in Trubo Pascal and in C C++, but not very good at it.
I have tried learning the PIC in C, that did not go well !!!!
I am a semi-retired Broadcast Engineer and ham radio op, so the electronics side
should not be a problem at all.....
I have enjoyed reading some of the posts here...