[volt-nuts] The Art of Electronics

[Adrian Flynn]

$105!!!!
For people with more money than brains.

$30.00 YEAH RIGHT NOW.

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Adrian KF7DYU

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Marv @ Home <marvin.gozum at comcast.net>
wrote:

> When AoE was released in 1980, the intended audience was electronics for a
> non-EE major.  How this morphed into an engineering text shows how what is
> 'core' has changed.  It had a friendly style, akin to having a instructor
> with you.  AoE was best read in chapter sequence through the fundamentals,
> and higher chapters expect readers to know material from previous chapters
> without reference to it.  On occasion it used concepts a jump forward but
> could be figured out by cross referencing its index.  It was a semester
> course for us back in early 1980s.
>
> AoE v2 updated more in the digital domain with many corrected errata and
> typos from V1.
>
> I'd wait for V3 2nd printing or later, as typos from 1st printing are
> being reported as well as I read references to unpublished chapter "Xs" not
> in this printing.
>
> T&S is an excellent text, if you already know the material and just need a
> refresher.  It gets to the point quickly.
>
> Only 2 T&S editions were translated to English; German has ?10+ editions.
> The only edition I ever looked at in print was v1, and it was $180+ in
> 1990s, compared to $50 for AoE new, or $20+ used.  T&S used in the USA is
> harder to find, and few V1 I've seen sell near $100+.
>
> Student or someone with a cursory interest, cost, writing style and
> similar breadth could be a tie breaker, AoE V3 sells for ~$100 delivered,
> and V2 $20-30 used.  T&S V2 from 2008 is ~$US260 delivered.
>
>
> At 04:33 AM 4/17/2015, Attila Kinali wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 08:24:38 +0000
>> "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
>>
>> > >How does it compare to the gold standard of the Tietze&Schenk?
>> >
>> > No idea.
>>
>> If you know a bit of german, get yourself a copy of it.
>> You will love the in-depth explanations of the various
>> electronics compontents. Also you can use it to knock
>> out any burglar, should the need arise ;-)
>>
>> > You have to remember that not everybody here are professional
>> electronics
>> > people, I'm a software person who knows enough electronics to be useful
>> > without being dangerous, and I've certainly learned a lot from AOE3
>> > over breakfast this past week.
>>
>> True that. The AoE gives at least a nice overview of quite a few
>> electronics techniques. And probably not the worst thing you can
>> start with, when you are new to electronics.
>>
>> That said, I kind of miss the amateur radio/electronics literature
>> that was so abundant in the 80s. They really did a good job of
>> introducing various circuits and how successfully build them if
>> you don't have any professional equipment.
>>
>>                         Attila Kinali
>>
>
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