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Introduction to Logic Design with CD

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Bought this book for an introductory digital design class at my university. Didn't use it much except for homework problems. Although the book does cover a lot of content in detail, the wording and organization of the book is very poor. Sometimes it'll present topics in a sequence that doesn't make very much sense, or the wording of the book will simply confuse the reader. Tried to use it to study for an exam or midterm, but consistently found myself struggling with the book due to a lack of relevant examples and unclear phrasing. For the price of this book, I think that there's much better out there.

This book was required for an Introduction to Digital Design class (I am currently about one third into the class), and the book was only used for the homework.

Since there wasn't really any assigned reading, the book wasn't the best for homework reference, so much as a tool to review material that was taught in the lectures. The inside cover had a helpful reference sheet, but so far I have not found too much useful inside the actual chapters to simply skim through and find useful.

To make the most of this book, you really do have to read it, since skimming won't give you time to do the logical thinking you'll need to understand the problems. I found once I started reading through a few chapters that it not only helps you with the current problems, but will also give you a good foundation for future chapters and problems.

The book is decently written, but the organization is poor. Review problems are at the end of every chapter, but have no references in the book that can be used to look up page numbers. Some of the answers are in the back, but they are also hard to find. If you plan on using the book for homework, I suggest a few bookmarks or sticky notes to mark the page numbers. Take good notes in class, and think about the concepts enough, and you may find that you don't need the book to do most of the problems.

Since I bought the book purely for a class, I found that the book seems to be written more for independent study, as jumping around in the book is harder than simply reading it through.

As a student, I often found this book to be helpful in my studies. The examples are a bit sketchy, but they force you to think to apply them to the material. The chapters are a bit confusing, but you shouldn't be using this book for an introduction to this course. Overall, this book is good for the intermediate or advanced digital logic technician.

This text book was the required text book for my Digital Techniques I class. I'm simply posting this remark so other students will not be as unfortunate as I was in wasting money on this book. I tried using the book at the beginning of the semester, but after 2 weeks I gave up on using it. I haven't opened it since. I felt that there was no since of coherency in the text. I felt the examples were rather poor. There's not even a glossary to look up terms, and the index is not helpful. I don't know enough about digital design to give very constructive criticism on this text. But I know that as a student, I found this book to be very bad. There are many other text books out there that do a much better job of introducing the topics of an introductory digital design class. Use one of those. Not this one.

Computer Engineering Undergraduate

We ordered a hard back copy of this book instead we received an international paperback copy, which wasnt even listed as option on site. Totally disappointed.

I think the negative reviews have summed it up pretty good. This book is not clear about anything. They go into great confusing detail just to explain the simplest concepts. Theres not (if any) good step by step guides on how to do the problems in the book. They explain concepts and problems in paragraph format which is dumb. I actually just transfered to a tech school because the texts the University was using were just plain awful. Before buying your books, check out the reviews on here. I have found that most are pretty accurate.

or nobody would buy it. If you're just looking to self educate yourself on digital logic, this is not the book for you. And teachers should stop forcing this on their students. It's not written in an easy to understand manner. The "solved problems" are basically "here's the problem, here's the answer." With how the answer was reached left as an exercise for the reader. The only reason it's survivable is because it's logic. Unbeknownst by reading the book you discover there are simple patterns.

If you absolutly must use this book because some teacher assigned it, use it in conjunction with LogicWorks. By doing the assignments in LogicWorks you get rid of the theory and can fiddle around until you figure out how it works in practice.