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Thanks for the kind words sir. More to come. I have the September release cooking now and the page count as it stands now is 273. However, in the future, experience has shown that page count won't be used as a metric of improvements. I find that when updates are made in the future, it will be more polish to the existing material including corrections and in-place enhancements and better explanations. Over the next few months I anticipate bursts of increases pages but after that, we may even see page counts go down while the quality (hopefully) continues to improve.

Hi kolban
Keep up the good work.
A possible reference to include is to the ESP12e Devkit User Manual :- https://www.gitbook.com/book/smartarduino/user-manual-for-esp-12e-devkit/details
It is not comprehensive, but better than nothing.

Thanks a lot for the book!

Under the "Areas of Research" section, regarding the second item (about whether an entire library gets pulled in, or just the object files that are needed) - my understanding is that only the individual object files that are needed are pulled in.

Source: Static Libraries section in Beginner's Guide to Linkers

The entire article is very well written introduction to what exactly linking does, and you might enjoy it.

Neil, starting with the overview on page 13: I've always thought of Arduinos et al. as microcontroller-based, whereas the Raspberry Pi and run-of-the-mill computers as microprocessor-based. I'm not sure where the dividing line between the two is (I happen to call anything with a proper MMU a microprocessor) but the ATmega328 is definitely a microcontroller. The ESP-8266, although quite a bit more powerful, still seems like a microcontroller to me, but perhaps I'm way out on my own. If it were me, I'd be careful to use microcontroller for all references to the ESP-8266.

Not that the Wikipedia Arduino page jumps between calling the chips at the heart of the Arduino a microcontroller and microprocessor.

And thanks for putting this book together. I was waiting for something like it to come together before jumping on the ESP-8266.