Ask HN: What's a good book to learn electronics?

Re:Ask HN: What's a good book to learn electronics? by markessien on Monday November 10, 2008 @02:42AM (#359001)

I started with Visual Basic and ended up with Assembler and VHDL. It's a route that worked for me. If I had to start with Assembler, follow with C, then C++ and so before reaching VB, I may have lost interest along the way. In any case, it would have been a lot less fun.

Some people prefer the details first, some prefer to staart easy, make a bunch of mistakes and learn more and more details as one goes along. I'm one of those people, and that's why my advise fits that mould.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a good book to learn electronics? by Rod on Monday November 10, 2008 @06:56PM (#359963)

I started with VB too ;-) I got some bad habits, but later I learned C and it was ok.

The advantage of starting with VB is that it's very easy. However, these days there are other languages that are easy to learn and that are more powerful than VB, i.e., Python.

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