[ros-users] New ROS book available: ROS By Example

[Luke Schantz]

awesome I look forward to checking it out ( I was hoping a book come out
soon)
On Sep 7, 2012 9:52 PM, "Patrick Goebel" <patrick at pirobot.org> wrote:

>  Hello,
>
> A print version of the book "ROS By Example" is now available at:
>
>
> http://www.lulu.com/shop/r-patrick-goebel/ros-by-example-volume-1/paperback/product-20377537.html
>
> The PDF version is still available at:
>
>
> http://www.lulu.com/shop/r-patrick-goebel/ros-by-example-volume-1/ebook/product-20368525.html
>
> --patrick
>
>  http://www.pirobot.org
>
> On 09/04/2012 06:50 AM, Patrick Goebel wrote:
>
> Hello ROS Fans,
>
> I have written a little book called *ROS By Example<http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/ros-by-example---volume-1/13037556>
> *.  The book is aimed at new ROS users who want to go beyond the Beginner
> Tutorials and create some working ROS applications, either in simulation or
> on a real robot like the TurtleBot.  The book provides step-by-step
> explanations of a number of ROS programming examples using code that can be
> downloaded from the accompanying ros-by-example<http://code.google.com/p/ros-by-example/>repository.  You can see a preview of the book including the table of
> contents on the *ROS By Example<http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/ros-by-example---volume-1/13037556>
> * web page.
>
> There are some important caveats if you are considering getting the book:
>
>    - The companion code is written for ROS Electric, not Fuerte.
>    - I have tested the code under Ubuntu 10.04 and 11.10 but not 12.04
>    since Debian packages are not available for ROS Electric under 12.04.
>    - The book assumes the reader has done at least the Beginner Tutorials
>    on the ROS Wiki.  It also assumes at least a one-time reading of the TF
>    tutorials.  In fact, there are a lot of links in the book that point back
>    to the Wiki but this is all in the spirit of not reinventing the wheel.
>    - The code samples are written in Python, not C++ so if you don't like
>    Python, this book probably isn't for you!
>    - A print version of the book will be coming soon (hopefully in the
>    next week or two) but I think the PDF version will probably be more useful
>    to most folks.
>
>
> --patrick
>
> http://www.pirobot.org
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