Internet of Things Programming Projects: Build modern IoT solutions with the Raspberry Pi 3 and Python

I am only on chapter 6 because I have been reading this book at my leisure. I wouldn't recommend this book as a first book for beginners but if you have a little experience with the Pi and Python then this book is great. It is easy to follow along and it has a lot of practical examples. I bought this book because the final chapters teach you how to build a robot car from scratch. I have not been disappointed so far. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn to make their own projects because this book doesn't just teach you how to put together a few projects. Ultimately, it will teach you how to make some of your own projects from scratch.

Did the author even test the code examples from his book? i.e. 'pip3 install weather-api' does not work. Module name is wrong. Unfortunately it seems it's too late to get my money back.

The best way to learn something is by doing! This book will show you real applications for internet enabled electro-mechanical devices and machines. This book was a great intro for me into the Raspberry Pi world and gave me an excellent foundation to implement my own inventions. This book will NOT teach you Python from scratch nor HTML/CSS from scratch but it does a damn good job of getting you coding these languages without a deep dive into code semantics/syntax. I learned heaps about the semantics/syntax just by working through the projects. Oh and yes, you'll have to buy all the sensors and actuators if you want to actually work these projects. Also, the "grand finale" is a robot car ... there's quite a few purchases required in order to implement this one. The author does a great job of informing you where to buy what you need though.