Customer Reviews

Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals (4th Edition)

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(19)

 

 

The other reviews said it all. This book is detailed and thorough, but is practically impossible to learn from because there are not enough examples, and there are no answers to the problems! You can get selected solutions on the website, but even with the answers, it can often be very difficult to figure out how to do the problems.

I'm on Amazon.com right now because I'm desperately seeking other books that will help me pass my Logic Design class...

This book is the WORST book I ever used. There are barely any examples. The contents are written very unclearly. It takes long time to undertand the SOLVED EXAMPLE in the book, let alone the problems.
Even solved problems on the website, you find wrong solutions...
I DO NOT recommand anyone even read this book...

This book is the worst book I ever used there are barely any examples or I should say full examples. The index doesn't match the text so you can't use it to look up key points. If you have a instructor who is going to use this book do yourself a favor and tall him/her out of it.

Mano and Kime do an admirable job of organizing the enormous content that this book covers, however they skim across topics that should be covered in depth and devote page after page on information that students will never use again. It is time they removed their heads from the sand and actually write a book that is worth the price tag.

Would you believe they used this book for a computer science class? The class is hell because of it and the teacher. It has no answers for problems so you don't know if you're right or wrong. It's examples that it does give are horrible and it never fully explains anything. It doesn't even deserve 1 star (how bout -2stars!).

This book is really garbage. The examples are 'meh' at best. It's so verbose and complicates simple concepts.

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Here is an online textbook. Completely free and infinitely better at explaining concepts. Not only does it cover digital design but also a lot of other topics. Please rate this post helpful so that this website gets more publicity as it fully deserves it. This website is much better than my professor. Why I paid 100 something for this waste of paper, I do not know.

This book covers a lot of topics dealing with computer designs. However, when you reach the part of solving the exercise problems, it only gave me more problems because I was never sure with the answer I came up with.

Here is a useless book in this field that can cause much confusion in the minds of students. The book seems to be jumping around all over the place and all those hard to understand concepts can very well be explained in simpler terms with examples as we have done in our outside the book discussions. Better grab some other books and don't waste your money on this book.

Anyone who has scrolled down to this half of the page is probably some disgruntled computer science student, who's had the unfortunate luck of this being assigned as their textbook. Any hope of comprehending this book will have to be due to no less than your 100% undivided attention while reading, and even if you attempt to answer the exercises, you will probably be destined to an ungratified fate because of the lack of an answer key for sale -- or you can grovel to your professor, but according to the publisher, it's strictly TOP SECRET information. I have never encountered a textbook that is more of a discouragement ... no, a retardant, to learning.

This book is terrible. For some reason that I can not explain, the end of chapter problems are completely different compared to the ones out of the book my professor is teaching from. AND WE HAVE THE SAME EDDITION (4th). I just noticed this half way through the semester and now i have to copy the problems from another student so my homework grade won't suffer any more. This book just plain stinks.