On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, Tony Duell wrote:
On Wed, 5 Jun 2013, Fred Cisin wrote:
On your advice, I bought a copy of "Art Of
Electronics".
It';s well worth reading, even if you never pick up a soldering iron
(and I know that won't apply to you ;-)). There are things in it that I
would do differently, but by the time you've understoof enough to know
_why_ you'd do things differently, you understand the subject very well
indeed. And there are some areas that you really need other books to
cover (radio design being one such), but that simply means you need tAoE
and another book.
In my mind, this is more the sort of book that you pick up once you've
decided to "get serious" and really jump into the electronics field. It
isn't a beginner or intro book by any means, and I think for the
uninitiated, something more along the lines of "Getting Started in
Electronics" by Forrest M. Mims III would be a better introductory text
before diving into "The Art of Electronics". While even more basic
introductory books from Irwin Math such as "Wires and Watts", "Morse,
Marconi, and You", and "Bits and Pieces" would be ideally suited for grade
school students, these would also be valuable for anyone completely
unfamiliar with basic electronics. (Note that Math's books are ~30 years
old now, so they are very outdated when it comes to modern electronics,
however the basics never really change.)