Getting Started in Electronics Reviews
October 22, 2010 by admin
Getting Started in Electronics
This is a complete electronics course in 128 pages! Author Forrest Mims teaches you the basics, takes you on a tour of analog and digital components, explains how they work, and shows you how they are combines for various applications. Includes circuit assembly tips and 100 electronic circuits and projects you can build and test.
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Review by Christopher C. Owens for Getting Started in Electronics
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I cannot overstate the impact this book has had in my life.
My dad bought me a copy of this book when I was in 7th grade.
22 years later, I’m working in the electronics industry, and I keep my original copy handy for reference or explaining electronics concepts, and I regularly buy additional copies to give to coworkers and friends who need a crash course in electronics. There are some other books (_The Art of Electronics_ for instance) that I hold almost as dearly, but while I’m sure people can come up with flaws in this book, it’s been on my shelf for more than half my life.
It literally got me started in electronics.
Review by Jason D. Kridner for Getting Started in Electronics
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I read this book when I was 10. I went on to college and got a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and work in the industry. Never in my education and experience have I run across a better book on electronics. It is very limited on math and won’t teach you how to solve circuits, but it will give you a conceptual framework that helps the math make sense.
The book has lots of practical examples that you can implement to get the “feel” of electronics. Many of these exercises are ones that folks in the industry haven’t managed to do and it shows in their work. This should be everyone’s first book on electronics.
Review by T. Weghorst for Getting Started in Electronics
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Hands down the best book for anyone who wants to learn about electronics. Easy to read explanations laid out in the correct order to learn easily by building onto previous examples. Simple projects that are not only fun to build, but many can become useful in the home and your new lab.
Review by Erik Miller for Getting Started in Electronics
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This book is the first one to read if you want to learn about electronics.
Forrest Mims is a giant in the field of hobby electronics writing and I am glad that his classics are still in print. I was concerned when Radio Shack stopped publishing his books, but all the best stuff (the Engineers’ Notebooks are indispensable as well) has been reissued.
Review by David Ivey for Getting Started in Electronics
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I wanted to learn electronics but I ended up being frustrated. Almost every beginning level electronics book explains ‘what’ resistors, capacitors, diodes, and other electronic components are and how they work. However, they all fall short of explaining ‘why’ these components are found in any particular electronic circuit. This book is no different.
I can look at a schematic and build what I see, but I have no idea why the circuit was designed the way it was designed. WHY does a capacitor need to be placed between this IC pin and that component? I believe my lack of knowledge is a result of not yet finding the right book to give me that knowledge. Mim’s book gave me some of the ‘what’ but is sorely lacking on the ‘why’. Unfortunately most beginning electronics books suffer from the same problem.