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You can download the latest SDK from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html
and the latest version of Eclipse at www.eclipse.org/downloads/index.php.
While you can use J2SE 5.0 or Eclipse 3.1, both were not ready at the time this book was
written, so the programs have not been tested with those versions.
Book Road Map
The chapters of this book build upon each other, with the primary goal being robot navigation,
which we tackle in Chapter 7. However, you can really expand the capability of your robot by
using speech as explored in Chapter 5, or by using some of the items discussed in Chapter 9.
I draw on topics from all of the previous chapters in Chapter 9, while simultaneously introducing
some fun and powerful programs. See Figure 1.
Figure 1. Book road map
