Getting Started with Arduino vs The Book of R: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Computer programming, Data Processing
Getting Started with Arduino
The Arduino Hardware The Arduino board is a small microcontroller board, which is a small circuit (the board) that contains a whole computer on a small chip (the microcontroller). This computer is at least a thousand…
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The Book of R
The Book of R is a comprehensive, beginner-friendly guide to R, the world’s most popular programming language for statistical analysis. Even if you have no programming experience and little more than a grounding in the…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Getting Started with Arduino is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 15 for The Book of R.
- Getting Started with Arduino has the widest readership — 1038 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Getting Started with Arduino | The Book of R | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (1038) | — |
| Hardcover | 3.0 (1) | 4.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (31) | — |
Reception
| Getting Started with Arduino | The Book of R | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1038 | 1 |
| Editions | 2 | 1 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | 998 | — |
| Pages | 118 | 832 |