6 Jun
2013
6 Jun
'13
1:24 p.m.
Some months
back a local chrity shop (what you cal la thrift store) had
the 3-volume set (2nd and 3rd editions) in a slip case for \pounds 5.00.
Well, I am not a progranmmer .... But I bought them, of course. I might
even complete reading them one day.
Good. 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.
Incidntally, _anything_ by Fredrick Terman is worth reading. It may seem
old-fashioned now (1950s and earlier), but a lot of the principles have
no cheanged. The methods described in 'Measurements in Radio Engieering'
still work and still give accurate results. They may not be as convenient
as a black box that just displays the answer, but...
Good books are worthwhile even if for a field on which
you have only a
casual interest.
Of course.
As a freind of mine says, slightly truncating Tom Lehrer : 'Books are
fun. That's all there is to it'
-tony