Getting Started With STM32 Nucleo Development Kindle Edition

Agus Kurniawan has written many introductory books about various micro-controllers and microcomputers. Every one I have seen is excellent, and well worth the modest purchase price. This one, about the STM32 Nucleo evaluation boards, is worth even more, as it explains what ST hides. If you look at the package that a Nucleo board comes in, it says, in essence, for more information go to their website. This is the equivalent of someone asking for directions and simply being told to go to New York City. The ST web site is a total waste of time unless you know exactly what you are looking for, and where to find it. You will be lead on wild goose chases, with circular links, and the same product being referred to by multiple names, until you are screaming with frustration. Agus saves you that all trouble by buying his $3 book. Knowledge is always worth paying for, and the $3 for this book is mere chump change. Thank you Agus Kurinawan for all your help.

Book needs to be updated. The installation process for the tools is different enough so you end up winging it about half way through. The HelloWorld demo app instructs you to cut and past code from one auto generated function into another auto generated function when neither exists. If you go to the closest functions that do exists, you just break your code.

Agus needs to use grammar check while writing. Contains some good info but could have been written better.

Great introduction to ST's Nucleos. Many alternatives to program. The easiest, compile with Mbed.org, then drag and drop the .bin file into the flash device that shows up as storage. How easy can it be! BTW a Nucleo is like dropping a Porsche engine into a VW compared to an Arduino for about 12 bucks! Still love the Arduino, but when you need fast ADC, Nucleo is the way to go.

Good Book!

Too easy contend.Need more information about the technical stuff in the book.

This book is basically a tutorial on how to connect and do your first programs on nucleo using eclipse. It is intended for people who have no nucleo experience but know programing. It only mentions mbed in the last few pages and doesn't really cover it. It is written in poor English which the publisher/author could have corected, with a few hours of work. Maybe they though the target audience wouldn't mind. Overall it might have been relevant when nucleo came to the market but for me it was a waist of money, I am sure they are online tutorials now with the same information. I feel the author just put this together in a few hours to make some money.

Ok but a bit slapdash, lots of screenshot and how too's which are useful but a bit lacking in content and details of the STM32 architecture itself. The source code examples are poorly formatted and not explained very well. Still useful for getting started - but you will need to find more documentation elsewhere

Step by step everything is very well explained.

Honestly not fantastic. It gets you started, but there are typos here and there or cases of bad grammar. There is also very little explanation about anything, assumes you already know the C language and (for some reason) know what all the headers/libraries do. Or that you have any idea what anything in the prototyping world is. Not fantastic for people who really want to get down and dirty with this thing.

I was expecting something more, too many pictures, few basic examples and everything is build manually, since January 2015 STMCubeMx was released together with the IDE System Workbench for STM32, and everything is build and configured automatically, not need to add external libraries (.c or .h) or create functions to configure USART, ADC, PIN, etc. I really recommend to read online tutorials instead of this book.