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Re:Ask YC: Learning circuit/hardware; lab book? by attack on Saturday March 29, 2008 @06:20AM (#149341)
It would be quite a huge book. The topic area is more broad than you'd think, although not at all impenetrable. I don't know if any such comprehensive text exists. All of the books I used, I found to be quite poor and limited in scope compared to books in other fields. I think it's easy to see why. Frequently I'd just read everything I could scattered around the internet. Maybe you have a more narrow goal for what you want to learn than "electronics"?

Even the narrowly scoped books I found to usually be quite a bit less effective than they should be. Then again, the books I'm referring to where school books.

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Re:Ask YC: Learning circuit/hardware; lab book? by Emmjaykay on Saturday March 29, 2008 @06:29AM (#149346)
I am worried about breadth vs depth issues. It's probably why people get degrees in this. :) I'm sorry if I made it sound like I thought it was trivial. I'm not in any hurry, though; The Hardware Hacking books from O'Reilly are ok but not .. I dunno, "enough". The "Teach Yourself .." book is pretty dense...
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Re:Ask YC: Learning circuit/hardware; lab book? by elgator on Saturday March 29, 2008 @10:46AM (#149426)
You would get the most out of taking the freshman/sophomore level electric circuit analysis series from either your local community college or university. in the lab that goes with the course you can use the o-scopes, function generators, etc. if you like it then take the analog design classes where you really get into active filter and circuit design first at the op amp level then transistor.
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Re:Ask YC: Learning circuit/hardware; lab book? by attack on Saturday March 29, 2008 @06:33AM (#149348)
That's a problem with most EE books, it's either extreme depth or broad and shallow. You have a good question. I'd like to see others' recommendations.

I wish I could help more, but I still curse the books I learned from:)

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Re:Ask YC: Learning circuit/hardware; lab book? by Emmjaykay on Saturday March 29, 2008 @06:57AM (#149358)
why thank you!

I hope this is certainly possible to answer. Theoretically, if someone reads the right books and practices in the right way, along with hefty discipline and focus, one could say they would be very, very familiar with software and systems.

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