Updates
Latest Tweet
What's New?
Check out for latest innovation, a computer based training video collection
Like this Page
Starting Electronics, Third Edition Review by Kelly Jones
This book **helps** you learn. I owe deep gratitude to this book.
As I have stated in the title of this review, I am ever so grateful to have found this amazing little book. I am a completely devoted fan of this book. It is written in a SMART way, yet in a clear and approachable way. It manages to be conversational in tone without feeling like the facts are "watered down" or "dumbed down" or in any way "glossed over."
For the remainder of this review, I will attempt to tell my personal story of how and why I read this book. Hopefully this will help you make a buying decision if you are in a similar situation.
I am a computer software programmer. I bought this book while attempting to do well in an assembly language college course. (I should clarify: this book does not teach assembly.... this book teaches about electronic circuitry.) During my studies for the assembly language course, I felt that I was grasping assembly language quite well. However, we (the students) were also required to BUILD very small, simple robots and other computerized boards (either by soldering wires or by attaching wires to a breadboard). Most students had already taken other courses on electronics. I had not ever studied electronics, nor had I ever even so much as touched a multimeter or a resistor or a breadboard. I give this book ALL the credit for helping me pass my college course! This book gave me the skills and the confidence to figure out how to put together very simple robots and circuit boards. Again, I should add another clarification here: note that this book does not give any specific robot information. However, most books that show you how to assemble a robot (or something similar) do **not** actually explain WHY the robot works or explain any of the very small, piece by piece, fact by fact, building blocks of information that would allow you to apply your knowledge independently and flexibly to other endeavors. This book starts with the very, very basics, but it gives you the fundamentals very well so that you can tackle things on your own.