Book released on Photon and Electron

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Hey everyone,

We just published a book on Learning IoT using Particle Photon and Electron with the help from Packt Pub. I’m one of the authors and brings me immense joy to share it back with the community.

Links to buy book:
Amazon - http://amzn.to/2ddVLBz
Packt - http://bit.ly/2ds3Ti2

Cheers,

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Nice!

Maybe Particle would be interested in reselling it on their store? @zach

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Awesome! You should include a table of contents on Amazon or Packt so people have a better idea of topics covered in the book.

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So cool!

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Awesome. I’d suggest on Amazon enable it for “look inside” for potential buyers to assess the content.

Also, not sure with Amazon’s new restrictions on reviews, but otherwise consider maybe offering a few copies to Particle community members to read and publish reviews.

Good luck.

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This is awesome!!

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Thanks for the compliments. I will try getting a coupon code from Packt to give discounts for people buying from this forum.

@RWB - I have emailed @zach for putting it up on the store and he has been very supportive. Hopefully we will have it on Particle Store soon :smiley:

@bloukingfisher - The book is put up by Packt for selling on Amazon, I have requested them to provide the feature of Looking Inside.

@rhino - The table of content is provided on Packt website, I will go ahead and post it below:

Table of Contents
1: INTRODUCING IOT WITH PARTICLE PHOTON AND ELECTRON
Evolution of the IoT
Hardware and software in the IoT ecosystem
Market survey of IoT development boards and cloud services
What is Particle?
Photon, Electron, and Core
Summary
2: FIRE UP YOUR KIT
Essentials of FreeRTOS and hardware resources
Flow diagram for the Twitter project
Getting the Photon online
Twitter and e-mail interaction project
Troubleshooting
Summary
3: P2P AND LOCAL SERVER
Client-server versus P2P networks
Setting up a P2P network for Particle devices
Local server setup
Alternate protocols for IoT
Summary
4: CONNECTING THE SENSORS
Overview of the project
Hardware components and setup
Communication between the Photons
Data storage on the cloud
Cloud data analysis and SMS notification
Troubleshooting
Summary
5: OF CARS AND CONTROLLERS
Building the model car - hardware components
Building the model car - prerequisites
Putting it all together and controlling the car
Moving the car with gestures
Programming the car with the Electron
Troubleshooting
Summary
6: HACKING THE FIRMWARE
What is firmware?
Obtaining and flashing firmware
Custom firmware
Summary

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