The Arduino platform is great because it allows anyone with a desire to build awesome things the ability to easily create a prototype using a subset of C and C++ programming and specific Arduino functions.

The Arduino Book for Beginners is a tutorial style collection of lessons designed to be simple and easy to follow which uses only the most relevant circuits and programs and assumes nothing about your prior electronics or programming experience.

The book also comes with access to over 15 supplemental video lessons to help drive home concepts. These supplemental video lessons are pulled from training at Programming Electronics Academy, the premiere online training website for learning to program Arduino.

What you will Learn:How to program your Arduino...from variables to arrays, for loops and if statements
How to make your Arduino respond to sensors
How to communicate to your computer with the Arduino
How to build teleporters, levitating fortresses and nuclear reactors (maybe a stretch...)

This book covers the most useful, enlightening and simplest examples to get you started on the road to hacking just about anything.

What to Expect:Step-by-step instructions to walk you through building circuits and programming your Arduino
Each line of code in the programs are discussed to maximize your understanding of the fundamentals
Repetition of the basic programming building blocks are used to increase your retention of the material
Only a handful of additional parts are necessary to complete the course lessons, many of which are reused from lesson to lesson, reducing your investment in learning how to use Arduino
The simple building blocks you learn will be put together to build more complex examples

Get Started Now:
There is no better time to jump in then now! The Arduino community is vibrant and growing.