The Art of LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Programming (Full Color) Paperback – Illustrated, January 14, 2014

A top-level students can understand this book as written. An average students can understand the vocabulary and sentences, but needs an adult's help in processing the significance of some of the content. I love the EV3 Mindstorms as a platform for teaching introductory programming, and this is the book I would recommend as a textbook. Also, if you are an educator (or new FLL Mentor) and need to learn how to program the EV3s, I would recommend this book. If you are the sort of highly motivated student who begged mom for a LEGO set, this is the book I would recommend to you to learn how to use it. (Technical note: you only need a Core Set to do the programs in the book. However, those with the Home Edition might want to purchase a gyro sensor separately. The book has instructions for both the Home Edition and the Education Edition LEGO sets, but Education Edition purchasers take note, the Home Edition instructions usually come first. It is helpful if a teacher note these cases and warn the students of them).

Excellent book. Highly recommended !Got a different book to learn about the EV3 in general but that book focused a little too much in trying to program the robot from the on-board screen/button, which is cumbersome and not practical.This book on the other hand is full of great little projects to help kids (or adults like me) learn how to program efficiently. I am 1/3 into the book, and really like it. My daughter is currently reading it and she also enjoys it. The little projects are specific enough that kids keep engaged while learning.We got the kindle edition and my only complaint is that on the really big programs the graphs are not crisp enough to read all the details, but with some effort is doable.

I think this would be an excellent starting point for anybody that is doing FLL. I think the level of the descriptions and details would work out well with the FLL teams that do not have much experience with programming. The book covers some interesting things that I didn't know - saving data to files for example and then opening it up in EXCEL to get a good idea on what light level to use for line following.

Excellent book for learning LEGO Mindstorm EV3 programming. I want to be ahead of the learning curve as my great grandson is starting to get into learning to program this series of LEGOs from his grand parents buying him the Mindstorm EV3 LEGOs.

I am a middle school science teacher, and I just upgraded my Classroom robots from the EV2 to the EV3, and this book is proving to be just as amazing as the EV2 book. It is filled with information about programming, sensors and how to do really innovative programs with the robots. Plus, most students love the programs that come from this book!

was trying to help my grandson to program his mindstorm robot with this, but the program interface is out of date. The concepts are still there, but the graphics need to be updated. some of the functions are a bit different as well.

This is by far the best beginner's book on Lego Mindstorms EV3 programming. Even if you do not believe yourself to be a beginner, this book will give you a very solid foundation on which to build your EV3 programming skils. It is based on the Home edition of Lego Mindstorms but is equally valid for the Training Version also. This book far surpasses the books that come with Lego Mindstorms Home Edition. It also surpasses most of the on-line EV3 tutorials that I have seen.

This is by far the best beginner's book on Lego Mindstorms EV3 programming. Even if you do not believe yourself to be a beginner, this book will give you a very solid foundation on which to build your EV3 programming skils. It is based on the Home edition of Lego Mindstorms but is equally valid for the Training Version also. This book far surpasses the books that come with Lego Mindstorms Home Edition. It also surpasses most of the on-line EV3 tutorials that I have seen.