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Engineering Digital Design: Revised Second Edition

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This book is quite helpfull but you have to work at getting the information out of it. Tinder had me until we hit mixed variable logic with K-mapping. That area needs work; too many diagrams and not enough explaination. I have to say though, this is a hard topic to teach to someone who has never seen this material before.

This book is frustrating. The preface states that all end-of-chapterproblems are bundled on the included CD. But, there are none on theCD. Also two "powerful tools" are supposed to be included on the CD. BOOZER is included but you are directed to go to the manufacturer's website. Tinder does a poor job of relating the information in a way useful to a beginner.

I am a beginner to the world of digital design. I thought that this book could have helped me by including the answers to the exercises that are included. (It does claim to have them on the CD that comes with it, but I have yet to find them) Of course, it is a new book and CD, so it may come soon in a later edition. The book is very thourough in its coverage of the topics, but for a total beginner, I could have used a book that was twice as big. I am the kind of person who needs a lot of explanation from point A to B in a mathematical process, without skipping any steps in between, or making too many assumptions. I also need to be reminded sometimes of when to use already learned concepts that apply in the learning of new ones. The explanations in this book, although in depth, I found sometimes made jumps that were hard to follow without hours of analysis. Other than that, I found a wealth of information that covered many topics. I can say that I now have an understanding of digital design that I find exciting, and that even though I didn't learn everything I would have liked to in the time I had (This book was used as the text in a digital design class by its author), I did learn alot.