Getting Started with the Photon: Making Things with the Affordable, Compact, Hackable WiFi Module (Make: Technology on Your Time)

First of all I love Simon Monks books, he is one of the best maker authors out there. However this book is not one of its better efforts. There is a lot of fluff and filler in this short book. There are sections covering basic wiring/C programming conventions like variables, and conditional statements and how to use a breadboard. There are some useful examples but out of the 20 examples 10 are super basic an some are pretty much available in the cloud build IDE environment that you use with the Photon. If you arn't tied to the Photon I would really look into the ESP8266 12-E it has all the functionality, a open environment, and many more available library. I'm not sure why anyone would use a Photon over that device and I have both.

It's been a while since I did anything with my weather station. It has been running perfectly for quite some time. I had this book back when building the project and it helped me in some cases. I wanted to play around some more so I simply picked this book back up and perused through it to bring me back up to speed. Then I connected to MANFRED over the internet and added some functionality. The Photon is a really nice system to work with and this book should be by your side when doing so.

With never using a Photon before, this book was very helpful. I feel like some of the projects in the book were not very practical and needed a lot of extra parts. Fortunately for me I bought it with a specific interest, the "Spark.publish" function. I learned what I needed to and didn't do any of the projects.

I had a project in mind when I bought a Photon, but I didn't know how to make it all work. The information in this book was exactly what I needed to get my project running. The examples were easy to follow, and I was able to reuse a lot of the code. Overall, I was very pleased with the book, and I'd recommend it to other people looking for a good guide to working with the Photon.

Some have complained here that sections of Simon Monk is unnecessary but that depends on your individual knowledge gap. Simon did an excellent job of giving you everything you needed to know to get every sample working.

fine book, i dont finished to read it yet , include excercises with circuit and programming

Excellent! Allot of fun working with Particle Photon. I am mostly interested in redirecting my logging, and sending control messages from and to Bluemix. In this way, I can take advantage of the amazing middleware functionality in the IBM platform.Thomas

This was a book my husband ordered. He said it's a great resource to have.

Very good.

I brought a photon and then this book for son-in-law who is an electronics teacher. He was thrilled and found it very useful.

Great service, would recommend.

A good book for starters

Bücher über den Photon von Particle sind noch rar. Gut, dass der Simon Monk sich da engagiert hat und ein leicht verständliches Einführungsbuch verfasst hat. Wer es vorzieht, kann sich viele der darin enthaltenen Beiträge auch im Web zusammenklauben. Aber so schön komfortabel aufgebaut geht's halt doch einfacher und am Ende des Buches wünschte man sich, der Autor würde noch ein zweites Buch hinlegen. Vor allem zur machine-to-machine Kommunikation öffnet sich gerade zum Schluss des Buches ein weites Feld.