Getting Started with Netduino: Open Source Electronics Projects with .NET

This book gives about a 32 page comprehensive introduction to developing programs in C#.NET ( mostly for a Linux platform ).And Netdruino is new and not for everyone due to price and configuration complexity, but it has a solid future in IoT for several reasons.ProsOne: The base card is, of course, pricier than an Arduino card but it is cheaper than a Due if you need the computational clock rate( 166 MHz ) or if you attach a NIC expansion board and increase the cost of a single module by three times. So, look at the need and choose wisely.Two: If your central computer is a Windows based system you only need to write in a single .NET language( C# recommended ) thus simplifying the code base and future extensions.Reason three: Netdruino cards are pin compatible with a host of Arduino shields and their documentation is already on your bookshelf.Four: Using C# allows you to write complex programs using objects and multi-threaded designs which Arduino C can't do.Cons:One: Extensive complexity in the setup and development of programs to use in this device type.Two: You are going to have to get serious in your programming to use these boards. But, if you don't, the competition will.I would have given the book five stars if the book had been longer and more thorough in the details and included a couple of projects.

I wrestled with how many stars to give this. At points I was going to give it 2 stars. The problem is this book is seriously out of date which could give beginners a great deal of angst as none of the project code in the book work as is and require knowledge to fix/rewrite that many beginners won't have and there is no corrections file online that I have found. Yes there is a good forum at the Netduino site where you can request support - and they will answer your questions (even the author chips in), which is why I ended up giving the book 4 stars. But you will need to request support on each experiment. I'm a beginner with C#.Net , having done much VB.NET development, and haven't played with microprocessors in many years, so I did find this hard going and have yet to get some of the later experiments to work after a few weeks of tinkering.

Well-written and has a good layout that gets you up and running quickly...I followed the instructions on the Netduino site for setting up Visual Studio Express so it was all ready when my Netduino and book arrived and I had my blinky LED program compiled and running in less than 5 minutes.HOWEVER, some of the classes in the Netduino SDK have been revamped since the book was printed...not little niche functions that a beginner wouldn't use either, but major common ones that handle analog inputs and PWM. It took me a bit of Google searching to get my LED to blink at a variable speed adjusted with a potentiometer because the AnalogInput class has been reworked so not only does it function differently, but the new way to use it is completely unlike the old way that the book uses.Normally such mistakes would mean a much lower rating than four stars, but I'm adding a little reviewer's tilt to this one because the author is aware of the issue and actively working to update code examples online...I understand how difficult it can be to keep a printed book up to date when the book is about an open-source platform that's undergoing constant improvements and revisions.Other than the outdated code snippets I have yet to have any serious problems with any of the examples presented in this book. Examples contain both MakerShield diagrams and plain breadboard diagrams for those who don't have a MakerShield yet (get one, it makes things much easier!). If you're not afraid of having to troubleshoot when your copy/paste code example doesn't work then you'll have no troubles here...and frankly, if you're afraid of troubleshooting then you should probably not be spending your money on DIY electronics :)

I thought this book was easy to read and the illustrations were very good. I do understand it is a 'getting started' and the book does exactly that. It is definitely geared toward somebody who is not familiar with programming. If you are a programmer, then this book won't help very much and you can get basic understanding of what the programming capabilities are with just a quick google search. I felt this book concentrated more on programming aspects than electrical aspects. Part of working with the Netduino is dealing with electronic components, such as resistors, capacitors, LED's, etc. While it mentioned briefly about using resistors with LED's, it doesn't actually explain why to use a 150 resistor (normally, i thought 100 was used... that's why i wanted a basic book though was to know why). I understand that electronics is a big topic, but I don't feel like I was armed with the knowledge that I needed to know this stuff. I feel a chapter on basic understanding of electronics would go a very long way with this book and make it a great book.But the book is exactly what it advertises.... getting started. But that's about all you will get to do. It is a good book for a person who hasn't programmed or dabbled in electronics, but that's it.

This little book is a great intro to the world of Netduino microcontrollers. It's a very quick read and has some nice examples with code and nifty hand-drawn hardware diagrams.I got a basic Netduino starter kit with the controller, breadboard, button, LEDs, etc. My only minor complaint about the book is that you need to make sure you have the correct hardware to follow all of the examples in the book - like certain shields. But it does make an effort to show alternative examples using a basic breadboard, which helped me a lot.All-in-all a nice little read. I think it should be pretty easy to follow for novice programmers as well.

This book offers a good introduction to Netduino and has some interesting sample projects, but non-programmers might struggle to understand the code samples. The book is very short and only takes a couple of hours to read, which is why I think ~£9 is far too expensive, especially when you can probably find the same examples online for free.

I am relative new to C#I managed to het the setup right.I did write some simple testprograms including a simple multithreading exampleI managed to get the get a connection going from internet explorer to the netduino.So its fair to say the book serves it purpose.However its fair to say that there is more learning nessesarry for instance if you want to hook up a RFID reader to the netduino. I accomplised this with a lot of reading on the Netduino's web site. (What is in a namespacee if you don't know the meaning.)

kind of simple but helps and saves some time searching at internet for basic stuff. If you are starting with netduino is a nice starting guide.

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値段の割に非常に薄い小冊子です。この本を買う人はNetduinoがArduinoと何が違うか既に知っているわけで…と言う意味では本来製品にこのくらいのガイドブックが付いてきてもよいのでは、と思うほどGet Startな内容です。しかしまあ、Netduinoから始める人には保険の一冊です。一通り要素機能を使ったチュートリアルですが、どれもたいへん短く、打ち込むのも簡単です。そう言う意味ではこの程度の薄さは正解でしょう。　C#ベースのオブジェクト名称や機能リストみたいなものを期待していましたが、そんなものはありません。（ソース読めってことですか。）　短い時間で効果をみる学校教材に向いているかと思いましたが、この開発環境が普通だと思われると逆効果ですね。