wow! that board has everything! a bit scare, from my point o view 😛
at first I though: ‘I should buy the ‘most simpler’ one’, then I go and brought the NucleoF091RC, but since this board is quite ‘new’ there is no much resources for a novice to grab some code here and there an play with it, bad decision. So I decided to spend another €14 and brought the Nucleo401RE which is far more common, many examples on Carmine’s book are designed for this board and seems like many people have it, hence, there is more code on the net to test and play with it! Also the DiscoveryF4, but I don’t own one of these.

I think you should be able to go trough the book with any of them, but the level of frustration will depend on your previous programming abilities, since my previous abilities was ‘Arduino level’ I prefer start with the most basic I can find 🙂