Ask HN: An alternative to Horowitz and Hill?

Re:Ask HN: An alternative to Horowitz and Hill? by RiderOfGiraffes on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @12:23PM (#905661)

I've just pulled out my H&H and had a look. It's terse, but its explanations are pretty complete. Looking at one circuit and trying to work out why it works I had to back-trcak through several earlier sections, but it seemed pretty clear.

I'm not sure what else you'd be looking for. Pedagogically if you start from the front and work carefully through it then I think it would be hard to beat it.

I can't help but feel that anything more targetted at teaching would be 5 times the size, or cover one fifth the ground. Can you be more specific about how you feel it falls short?

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Re:Ask HN: An alternative to Horowitz and Hill? by jgrahamc on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @12:37PM (#905708)

I guess my problem is that I ended up feeling it's too terse. I read chunks of it years ago when I studied electronics and I've be working through it from the beginning as a way to occupy my bus commute (along with 8,000 other things :-) and there are times when it's a bit infuriating because it's so terse.

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Re:Ask HN: An alternative to Horowitz and Hill? by RiderOfGiraffes on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @12:45PM (#905739)

I think it's a "Read like math" not a "Read like prose" situation. The best learning mantra is "See one, Do one, Teach one" and I think they've conflated the first two parts of that. They give you the information, but force you to work through it to achieve understanding.

Beyond that attempt at helping you to find the right attitude with which to approach the book, I no further advice.

I'd be interested in hearing why you're catching up on electronics of this type. Maybe we really should have a London meetup.

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Re:Ask HN: An alternative to Horowitz and Hill? by jgrahamc on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @01:09PM (#905796)

I'd be interested in hearing why you're catching up on electronics of this type.

Mostly because I like making physical things and electronics is something that I know some things about.

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