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Digital Electronics: A Practical Approach (8th Edition)

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I purchased this book for an online class at community college. The class is actually "taught" by the writer of this textbook, which i thought was pretty cool. Although i had access to the author of the textbook, i did not need to utilize his knowledge because the text is written so well. I was able to basically teach myself and do very well in the class with this textbook and the included software. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to know about digital electronics, whether they want to teach themselves or for a class (that is not to say you should purchase this instead of the text required for a class).

I am currently enrolled in an online course, who is taught by the author of the book. I have taken this class before and found it to be queit difficult to really get a grasp on some of the text while going through the class. In highschool it was very hands on and the teacher was right there with you every step of the way. I took this at a different college where the professor was very smart and knowledgable yet he did not have a sucessful pass rate because he couldnt communicate well with the students and the books he required were vary hard to understand. Signing up for this course online made me nervous because of my past expierence with this class (it was in an actual classroom, so you can imagine my worries with it being online and not interacting in a classroom setting) - this is the last course i need to complete my AAS. Talking with Professor Kleitz, he made it clear that putting in the time and effort, weekly, that you should be able to teach yourself with this book and by solving the problems throughout the chapters - boy was he right. I've gone through the first chapter and i feel that i've already learned and taught myself more than i could have with any other book i've used. I would recommend this book to anyone interesting in persuing a field in electronics, design, manufacturing, computers, etc. - eppspecially if you are at a loss for classroom time. I work a full time job and i believe i will be able to excell in this class and finish up my degree thanks to the book and the ability to teach myself throughout his writings. Great job at writing the book!

Kleitz's Digital Electronics is an excellent textbook for classroom use, or for learning the basics of digital circuits on your own. Each section is very well organized with questions and exercises that relate directly to real world problems using real IC's and devices. It also makes frequent use of Multisim simulations which are a faster, cheaper alternative to using breadboards and expensive analysis instruments to explore device configurations and troubleshooting techniques.

Many of the devices he uses for examples are out of date, but still somewhat in use. Still, the concepts they illustrate are sound. (For example running off 1.2V rather than 5V, and being surface mount devices rather than DIPS isn't too important while learning how gates and flip-flops work.) He also describes FPGA's and CPLD's and includes some exercises in working with them using HDL.

Perhaps most valuable, every chapter includes exercises in interpreting real data sheets and schematics for a watchdog timer, HC11D0 master board, or 4096 control card. In this fast paced world of constantly changing electronic devices, technicians and engineers both need to know how to learn about the characteristics of digital circuits that they've never seen before -- whether they're well documented or not.

This digital electronics book is a thoughtful, well written text book. The illustrations are helpful and important as a tool to learn the material. There is a CD ROM resource that further supports the material in the text. Good author, good book.

The product came as the describe: like new, shipping very fast. I enjoy the book very much!Thank you