Book recommendations

[Art]

Hey all:

What we need here is a good list o' books. They should be practical,
general, have gentle learning curves, and have just enough theory to
explain things right (no mathematical proofs...MEGO). They should be
reasonably available. I'm suggesting my two favorites, "The Art of
Electronics", by Horowitz and Hill, and the ARRL handbook (it's not
just for hams, ya know).

What say all?

 

[Roger Johansson]

"Art" <scimethod2000@yahoo.com> wrote:

What we need here is a good list o' books. They should be practical,
general, have gentle learning curves, and have just enough theory to
explain things right (no mathematical proofs...MEGO). They should be
reasonably available.

It would be a great advantage if we could find the same information on
the web, so we could give the beginner a list of good links he can use to
learn the basics of electronics.

I think there is enough texts about the basics on the web, the problem is
that nobody has made a list, an index, of the best web sites, so they can
be studied in a systematic manner.

I'm suggesting my two favorites, "The Art of
Electronics", by Horowitz and Hill, and the ARRL handbook (it's not
just for hams, ya know).

The ARRL Handbook is available in most public libraries in the
industrialized world. The library usually has some books about elementary
electronics too, which can be used as a complement to the courses we can
find on internet.

The US Navy book about basic electronics, which is available on the web,
is also a good resource. (I forgot the url, but it shouldn't be too hard to find)


--
Roger J.

 

[John Larkin]

On 28 Feb 2005 01:32:27 -0800, "Art" <scimethod2000@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hey all:

What we need here is a good list o' books. They should be practical,
general, have gentle learning curves, and have just enough theory to
explain things right (no mathematical proofs...MEGO). They should be
reasonably available. I'm suggesting my two favorites, "The Art of
Electronics", by Horowitz and Hill, and the ARRL handbook (it's not
just for hams, ya know).

What say all?

An old used copy of Reference Data for Radio Engineers, common on
ebay.

Don Lancaster's Active Filter Cookbook. Still in print, cheap.

The old National Linear Applications books. ebay.

John

 

[Roger Johansson]

et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black) wrote:

And a big mistake people make is that everything should be on the web.
But that requires effort, without much compensation. It will be rare
to see something as extensive and large as a book about electronics
on the web.

http://www.tpub.com/content/neets/


--
Roger J.

 

[JamesB]

Here is a list of books I found tonight . . .

http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/books.htm

Good site for beginners, too.

In <1109583147.041154.180970@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Art wrote:

Hey all:

What we need here is a good list o' books. They should be practical,
general, have gentle learning curves, and have just enough theory to
explain things right (no mathematical proofs...MEGO). They should be
reasonably available. I'm suggesting my two favorites, "The Art of
Electronics", by Horowitz and Hill, and the ARRL handbook (it's not
just for hams, ya know).

What say all?

 

[Michael Black]

Roger Johansson (no-email@no.invalid) writes:

"Art" <scimethod2000@yahoo.com> wrote:

What we need here is a good list o' books. They should be practical,
general, have gentle learning curves, and have just enough theory to
explain things right (no mathematical proofs...MEGO). They should be
reasonably available.

It would be a great advantage if we could find the same information on
the web, so we could give the beginner a list of good links he can use to
learn the basics of electronics.

People got by for decades and decades without the web, so it's ridiculous

to expect everything to be "on the web". Books have a lot of advantage,
it's a lot easier to keep a book open when working on a project than
keeping an internet connection, and you can actually read them whenever
you like, rather than glance at them when you're at the computer.

Anyone who doesn't spend some money on books about electronics is not
interested in the field. If they can't afford them, then there's that
old style "web", the library, with "webpages" called books, which people
can't take out once they join the library.

And a big mistake people make is that everything should be on the web.
But that requires effort, without much compensation. It will be rare
to see something as extensive and large as a book about electronics
on the web. Looking at the questions here these past ten years, it's
often clear that much that is online is mere copies of old material,
often taken out of context because someone just puts the schematic
online. That's why we get all kinds of questions about now obscure
parts, because someone has copied that wireless microphone from that
1964 GE Transistor Manual, but the person seeing the schematic doesn't
know that it's that old since it's just the schematic, and is wondering
where to get that tunnel diode. Even if putting stuff on the web
was about illegal copying of old material, it takes effort to scan old
stuff. Newer material is much more likely to be there, since it is
now created in electronic form.


Michael