Best Selling Books by Terry Griffin

Many regulatory and professional agencies countenance the idea of patient-and family-centered care, yet lack an infrastructure able to support such care or employ health care professionals who lack the necessary education, experience, or skills. This book is a comprehensive guide to family-centered care for healthy, ill, or preterm newborns. It guides health care professionals in creating, supporting, and advancing a culture that values partnerships with families. The book is replete with practical suggestions, strategies for effectively communicating with families, and best practices for health professionals who wish to develop partnerships with families before and after childbirth. At the core of family-centered care is the belief that family-centered care and the ability to convey its particular language is as important to newborn and family wellbeing as clinical care. The book is based on four guiding principles that include treating people with dignity and respect, providing information in ways that are useful and affirming, welcoming family participation in care and decision-making at a level chosen by the family, and collaborating with families at the bedside and beyond. The book offers strategies to promote implementation of a family-centered environment in the delivery room or NICU, practical approaches to communicating with families before and after delivery, and tips on policy review to facilitate a culture of family-centered care. It also discusses how to welcome families during interdisciplinary rounds and nurse hand-offs, and ways to support families during procedures and resuscitation. Key Features: Provides a comprehensive guide to implementing family-centered care for healthy, ill, and preterm newborns Guides health care professionals in creating, supporting, and advancing a culture that values partnerships with families Offers strategies for effectively communicating with families to foster family-centered care Reflects on the power of language used with and about families Includes tips on policy review to foster and support a culture of family-centered care

The Art of LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT-G Programmingteaches you how to create powerful programs using the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT programming language, NXT-G. You''ll learn how to program a basic robot to perform tasks such as line following, maze navigation, and object detection and how to combine programming elements (known as blocks) to create sophisticated programs. Author Terry Griffin covers essential functions like movement, sensors, and sound as well as more complex NXT-G features like synchronizing multiple operations. Because it''s common for programs to not work quite right the first time they are run, a section of the book is dedicated to troubleshooting common problems including timing, sensor calibration, and proper debugging. Throughout the book, you''ll learn best practices to help eliminate frustration when programming your robotic creations. This book is perfect for anyone with little to no previous programming experience who wants to master the art of NXT-G programming.

With its colorful, block-based interface, The LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 programming language is designed to allow anyone to program intelligent robots, but its powerful features can be intimidating at first. The Art of LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Programming is a full-color, beginner-friendly guide designed to bridge that gap. Inside, you’ll discover how to combine core EV3 elements like blocks, data wires, files, and variables to create sophisticated programs. You’ll also learn good programming practices, memory management, and helpful debugging strategies—general skills that will be relevant to programming in any language. All of the book’s programs work with one general-purpose test robot that you’ll build early on. As you follow along, you’ll program your robot to: –React to different environments and respond to commands –Follow a wall to navigate a maze –Display drawings that you input with dials, sensors, and data wires on the EV3 screen –Play a Simon Says–style game that uses arrays to save your high score –Follow a line using a PID-type controller like the ones in real industrial systems The Art of LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Programming covers both the Home and Education Editions of the EV3 set, making it perfect for kids, parents, and teachers alike. Whether your robotics lab is the living room or the classroom, this is the complete guide to EV3 programming that you’ve been waiting for. Requirements: One LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Home OR Education set (#31313 OR #45544).

Mit ihrer intuitiv zu bedienenden Oberfläche ermöglicht es die Programmiersprache LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 jedem, intelligente Roboter zu programmieren. Die große Anzahl an anspruchsvollen Funktionen kann jedoch auf den ersten Blick einschüchternd wirken. Um diese Hemmschwelle zu überwinden, gibt es jetzt dieses Buch - eine farbige Anleitung, die auch für Leser ohne Vorkenntnisse geeignet ist. Hier erfährst du, wie du die EV3-Hauptelemente wie Blöcke, Datenleitungen, Dateien und Variablen zusammenstellst, um ausgeklügelte Programme zu schreiben. Du lernst auch gute Programmierpraktiken, Möglichkeiten zur Speicherverwaltung und nützliche Vorgehensweisen für die Fehlersuche kennen - grundlegende Fähigkeiten, die auch für die Programmierung in anderen Sprachen unverzichtbar sind. Alle in diesem Buch vorgestellten Programme laufen auf einem Allzweck-Roboter, den du ganz am Anfang bauen wirst. Im weiteren Verlauf programmierst du den Roboter dann für die verschiedensten Anwendungen: • Auf unterschiedliche Umgebungseinflüsse und auf Befehle reagieren • Einer Wand folgen, um aus einem Labyrinth herauszufinden • Über Drehregler, Sensoren und Datenleitungen Zeichnungen erstellen und auf dem EV3-Bildschirm anzeigen • Ein Gedächtnisspiel, bei dem Arrays und Dateien zum Einsatz kommen, um eine Aufgabe zu stellen und den Punktestand zu speichern • Einer Linie mit einem PID-Regler folgen, wie er auch in echten Industrierobotern verwendet wird Das Buch behandelt sowohl die normale Einzelhandels- als auch die Education-Ausgabe des EV3-Kastens und ist damit ideal für Kinder, Eltern und Lehrer geeignet. Ob du dein Roboterlabor im Wohnzimmer oder im Klassenraum aufbaust - dies ist der umfassende Leitfaden zur EV3-Programmierung, den du schon immer haben wolltest. Dieses Buch ist von der LEGO-Gruppe weder unterstützt noch autorisiert worden.

LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3程式設計的完整學習指引 憑藉其豐富、多彩及以模組(Block)為基礎的介面，LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3編程語言的設計讓任何人都能為智慧型機器人編寫程式，但它強大的功能可能會讓初次接觸的人感到有些許的壓力，《樂高機器人MINDSTORMS EV3程式設計》採用對初學者友好的編排設計，導引讀者消弭這樣的心理障礙。 在本書中，讀者會學習如何結合類似元件般的核心EV3模組、數據線、檔案和變數等基本元素，來完成複雜程式的製作。也會學習到良好的編程作業習慣、記憶體管理及實用的除錯方法，這些都是與任何編程語言共同且必備的關聯性技術。 本書內所提供的程式範例，都能與讀者所製作的一般功能測試機器人配合使用，接著按照書上的說明學習機器人的編程作業，即可完成以下任務： ‧對不同周遭環境的反應及對不同命令的回應 ‧順著牆壁行進，完成迷宮的導航 ‧在EV3螢幕上顯示利用撥盤、感測器和數據線所輸入的內容 ‧玩玩類似老師說的遊戲，利用陣列來儲存你所得的高積分 ‧使用PID控制器，像真正的產業用系統一樣追踪路徑行進 《樂高機器人MINDSTORMS EV3程式設計》涵蓋EV3套件的家用版與教育版兩種版本，使得它能得到孩童、家長和老師一致的好評。無論你的機器人實驗室是在客廳裡或教室裡，這會是你夢寐以求的一本完整EV3編程指南手冊。 #碁峰資訊 GOTOP Information Inc.

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