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Hello!

I'm new to using Arduinos and I'm looking for the perfect book to help me. If you have any favorties please share, and besure to explain why. I want to start getting those ideas in my sketch book that seemed impossible to make before and actually test them out. I didn't know how to program them so, I could never get my projects off the ground. I'm going to be working with a lot of servos and sensors. I'm probably going to start with the Arduino Uno, everyone says its the best one to start with. I'm going to really get into programming and learning how to use Arduinos once I know how. This forum seems like real great place!

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You dont need a book for arduino. Everything you need is available in the main site of arduino. Still, I would recommend you to get this book. https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11170 .

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You don't need a book - but books are distilled knowledge and often speed up the learning process

I have to register an interest here - I am about to recommend my own book, but it has had a lot of good reviews when it comes to getting newcomers to Arduino Programming on the right track.

http://www.arduinobook.com

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Everybody has different learning styles.  If you think a book would help-more power to you.  I would suggest you start with massimo's book.

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Hi, I have most every Arduino oriented book. My favorites are listed here:
http://arduino-info.wikispaces.com/Arduino-GoodBooks

And lots of free How-to and Educational material on the ArduinoInfo WIKI here - http://arduinoinfo.info

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Making Things Talk - 2nd Edition

I loved the first edition of this book when I started with Arduino. I don't read many educational books that end up dog eared from over use and this one really did!

The 1st edition book covered most of the real world examples that were the building blocks of many real world projects (if not all).

For Arduino, it taught me everything from lighting a simple LED, reading sensors such as gps, communicating over networks, controlling motors, sending radio messages +++.

A little bit of many fun things delivered simply in an easy to understand format.

Making Things Talk - 2nd Edition

The 2nd edition looks similar to the 1st but since I read the book there have been a number of hardware and software changes with the Arduino. Therefore I am recommending the 2nd Edition without having read it.

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I'm new to using Arduinos and I'm looking for the perfect book to help me.

This is a nice starter, it might not be perfect but it is free - http://www.earthshineelectronics.com/files/ASKManualRev5.pdf -

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I hope you'll like this one by me:

http://cprogrammingforarduino.com