I bought this book 5 months ago, and I am about 2/3rd through it. I've got a Masters in Computer Science degree and have been developing embedded software off and on for 20 years. I realized I was tired of not knowing how things worked at the fundamental circuit level, and bought this book to learn the basics.
After buying the book, I bought all of the components that the book suggests, and then I went to work. Mostly working one experiment a day, and supplementing the material with the web (to view data sheets mostly), I can honestly say I really have come quite a long way towards achieving my goal of learning the foundations of DC electronics. The book covers quite a wide range of topics, from the fundamentals of current and voltage to integrated circuits. The projects are interesting, and well presented.
Speaking of the projects, it's important to not just read the book, but to build and debug the projects it contains, in the order presented. I skipped to using a breadboard a little earlier than was suggested in the book, but otherwise, I followed along with each experiment presented. Each roughly builds on the other, and the pacing from learning one skill to the next was comfortable.
One of the nice things is the book shows circuits early on using illustrations of how the circuit would be layed out on a breadboard. Being able to compare the breadboard layouts to the circuit diagrams helped me to learn to read circuit diagrams must faster I think (comparing abstract diagrams to a breadboard is an important learning process I would argue). Later book experiments only provide circuit diagrams, but I found I was able to understand them due to my work on earlier projects, and I've since gone on the web and circuit diagrams are really no longer that difficult for me to understand now, thanks to this book.
I love a book that really teaches, and this one does. There are a lot of books on electronics out there, but I really can't imagine a better one for gaining the practical knowledge that this book sets out to teach. I know I won't be an electrical engineer, but I am really happy I bought the book and worked the exercises. Highly recommended.
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Best book by far for starting to learn electronics!
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it is good for beginers as it contains just experiments and teaches ...
Reviewed in India on July 24, 2015Lorenzo Goldoni
un buonissimo manuale di elettronica di base
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