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Richard Blum

800 East 96th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46240 USA

Sams Teach Yourself Arduino Programming in 24 Hours

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ISBN-13: 978-0-672-33712-3
ISBN-10: 0-672-337126

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013955616

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First Printing: September 2014

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Richard Blum has worked in the IT industry for more than 25 years as a network and systems administrator, managing Microsoft, UNIX, Linux, and Novell servers for a network with more than 3,500 users. He has developed and teaches programming and Linux courses via the Internet to colleges and universities worldwide. Rich has a masters degree in management information systems from Purdue University and is the author of several programming books, including Teach Yourself Python Programming for the Raspberry Pi in 24 Hours (coauthored with Christine Bresnahan, 2013, Sams Publishing), Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible (coauthored with Christine Bresnahan, 2011, Wiley), Professional Linux Programming (coauthored with Jon Masters, 2007, Wiley), and Professional Assembly Language (2005, Wrox). When hes not busy being a computer nerd, Rich enjoys spending time with his wife, Barbara, and two daughters, Katie Jane and Jessica.

To my Uncle George.

Thanks for all your mentoring and troubleshooting help in my early
electronics projects. I never would have gotten started in my career
had those projects not worked!

Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. Proverbs 27:17 (ESV)

First, all glory and praise go to God, who through His Son, Jesus Christ, makes all things possible and gives us the gift of eternal life.

Many thanks go to the fantastic team of people at Sams Publishing for their outstanding work on this project. Thanks to Rick Kughen, the executive editor, for offering us the opportunity to work on this book and keeping things on track, and to Andrew Beaster for all his production work. I would also like to thank Carole Jelen at Waterside Productions, Inc., for arranging this opportunity and for helping out in my writing career.

I am indebted to the technical editor, Jason Foster, who put in many long hours double-checking all the work and keeping the book technically accurate, all while getting a new job, having a new baby (congrats!), and moving to a new house in another state. His suggestions and eagle eyes have made this a much better book.

Finally Id like to thank my wife, Barbara, and two daughters, Katie Jane and Jessica, for their patience and support while I was writing this.

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