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The Art Of Electronics book is awesome!

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Terry01:
I have been wanting this book for a while now as i have seen it recommended by a few older heads over the couple of years I have been trying to teach myself electronics. I have been doing this by watching YouTube videos and reading from various forums and groups and also reading books and things like that. As anyone who is qualified in any of the various electronics fields will know, this can be very  challenging at times.
Building kits and stuff is ok but I want to know what the different components are doing and why they are doing it rather than just following numbered instructions kinda like "dot 2 dot". Even though copying the circuits on YouTube and stuff is cool when they work it's still not properly learning.

I got this book from Santa and haven't been able to put it down! I am only a tiny bit into the book, it's huge! I can already tell this is what I've been looking for to teach me the things I want to know. It's awesome and starts out as though you know nothing which is great.

The reason I made this post is I think this will be a great book for beginners to get and even the guys who know some things but not everything when building circuits. The way it is set out you can go to a particular part or component and it explains all about how and why that part works the way it does.

I would highly recommend it!  :-+

LateLesley:
I agree, I just recently picked up a second edition copy for the pricely sum of £6.81. It's a rather battered copy, ex library book, but it's in good enough condition, all the info is good, and that's what is important to me. It is a monster book, but the info contained within for beginners, is priceless. I'm looking forward to building some circuits i have ideas for, using it as a reference for the building block circuits like current mirrors, Voltage-Controlled Oscillators, Voltage controlled amplifiers, and filters. It's packed full of useful circuits, and descriptions of how they work.

I second the recommendation.

rstofer:
Don't forget the lab manual "Learning the Art of Electronics" and the soon to be released "X Chapters" (Amazon is taking pre-orders).
You can read all you want but you won't really understand electronics until it is on a breadboard and you can probe it with a DMM or scope.

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-x-Chapters/dp/1108499945

Tom45:

--- Quote from: LateLesley on December 26, 2019, 05:15:15 pm ---I agree, I just recently picked up a second edition copy for the princely sum of £6.81. It's a rather battered copy, ex library book, but it's in good enough condition, all the info is good, and that's what is important to me.

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This prompts the idea that those of us that have purchased new editions of the Art of Electronics have old editions that we don't use any more. There are beginners with not a lot of money that could benefit from the old editions. Certainly the old editions are still useful. At least until Ohm's law is repealed.

How to connect the unused old editions with those that could use them?

james_s:
Other than posting them in the FS section here, you could list them on amazon or ebay. Books can legitimately be sent via media mail which is quite cheap.

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