There are also several other older textbooks that seemed to focus on a technician's educati rather than an engineer's.
One of the problems is that there are things we "know" well by exposure, whether by rote repetition or by repeated grapplings with things we might encounter in the field. Subsets are common.
I have no idea how one might score a textbook, considering the modern scope of digital electronics (just an example) and the rarity of the apparent need for the understanding of the building blocks. This is not a wheel for most of us, and shaving away at the square leads to splinters for most.
Despite the "edition", which book did most find the most enlightening? and without the prior experience of drudgery, which might have been most helpful? Well, now we're talking about a single tome.
I think that a better discussion might lie in "what was the cadence?"
"Which books helped you in self-study, and in what order?" is a better question than... "which book was issued, and which professor did you draw, to answer the questions which the text left hanging?" We are all left to our own "ah-ha's".
Is it better to choose the right college text... or the right professor who not only knows its content, but sees a way to bridge that knowledge by his own experience in teaching? Or better yet, the professor who has experience in doing, rather than teaching?
I do not claim to have an answer for any of these. I'm interested in what helped others and what they slogged through BEFORE their "breakthrough" text, if that makes any sense.
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