Who this book is for

This book is intended for someone with a little programming experience, or someone more experienced but looking to apply their skills to a hardware project. You do not need to be an expert-level programmer, but do have to have written some lines of code and be comfortable with looping, conditionals, and functions. Knowledge of object-oriented- (class- and object-) based programming isn't necessary but is introduced in the book.

The book does not require a specialist workshop, although there will be a little soldering and bolting things together. This will be introduced later in the book.

You do not need to have any experience at all with electronics or making things, but hopefully, you'll have a healthy interest in learning more, since some very basic concepts are introduced throughout the book. Being keen to build a robot, get it to do stuff, and find out what to do with it next is probably the most important aspect of the book.