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EEVblog:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 12, 2019, 06:43:23 am ---I want to do a shootout review of various textbooks, but they have to be similar in content and scope.
e.g. Floyd, Malvino and Boylestad would be fairly similar I think, ones that cover all your basic active electronics components and circuits (transistors, opamps, filters) etc
These don't cover resistors, inductors or capacitors though.

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Ad Sedra/Smith to that list.
All 4 cover basically the same stuff and worthy of a shootout I think?

Johnboy:
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.

robsims:
Microelectronics Circuit Analysis and Design Donald Naemen 4th Edition
Microelectronic circuit design Jaeger 4th edition
Introductory Circuit Analysis Boylestad 11th edition
Fundamentals of Electric Circuits (Alexander and Sadiku) 5th Edition
Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory Boylestad 11th edition
Electronic Devices - Floyd 9th edition
Electrical and Electronic Principles and Technology John Bird 3th edition
Basic Electronics Schultz

I have downloaded all the books mentioned above, and they seem good. Floyd, Malvino and Boylestad are basically the same. They are good for self study. Went trough Malvino's diode chapters and things were well explained. I have a lot of homework to do.

Vtile:
Old Mullard transistor books might be interesting to skim through.

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