Electronics All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies: UK Edition

I'm a highly accomplished programmer so maybe i found this book exceptionally easy to get to grips with. However.... Having used (programmed) some Arduino boards and Raspberry Pi's for a couple of projects I decided to go back to my youth and actually learn something about electronics instead of focusing directly on software. I read a couple of things on web sites then downloaded this book and I'm very glad I did. It's easy reading and enjoyable - the authors manage to happily speak to the geek in me with pop culture references and a joke or two. All whilst teaching me why I need a resistor before an LED (I actually found that out the hard way...) - what a capacitor does and why I need to know... And by the end of each chapter I realised I had been sneakily taught a shed load about each subject. We take quite a leap around 70% through with a massive warning about not to panic (and rightly so) into IC's, logic gates, and a little BASIC programming. Finally a few real world example builds to produce fully functioning circuits. I've gone from a total newbie with no real idea of what on earth I was even looking at to a total newbie who knows what different components do and roughly how I can put them together in a useful way, read an oscilloscope, and be confident to build and debug (is that the right word for electronics?) fairly robust systems. I can read a schematic and understand what's going on (a REALLY helpful thing to be able to do). Safety is extremely well covered too. This book is pretty much, in my opinion a essential and pleasing and informative read for anyone wanting a very solid inroad into electronics.

Really liked this book when I read it a couple of years ago. Decided I wanted my own copy. Starts at the beginning, covers everything (to a relatively good level of detail). Lots of good little example projects. If you want to learn all of the maths, this isn't your book - if you want to understand the basics and start playing with circuits - this is your book. Thoroughly recommend. It's written in very plain English, would suit a bright youngster who is interested and wants a good basic grounding.

A good book for learning about electronics, easy reading style with good examples. Some of the chapters are rather dated with a section on interfacing with the Parallel Port on a pc, most if not all modern pc's use usb now. Also there is a large section on using the Basic Stamp microcontroller and programming it, when the majority of people have moved on to Arduino or ESP32 or similar development platforms.

I won't live long enough to absorb all the material in this book. It leads the reader into each topic with humour and simple ideas but it was 'War and Peace' when I needed something much more basic. I wanted to learn some things about electricity that I'd failed to learn at school (the teacher and I didn't get along) and it most certainly did that - but I didn't want to learn how to be a rocket scientist. I'm sure that other people will gain enormous benefit from it but my copy will remain on my Kindle, largely unread.

This was a gift to my nephew, he said it is very helpful with his studies,

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This is a big book that covers a lot of ground. The early chapters are aimed at the absolute beginner but by the end of the book you'll have encountered some complex specialised material that would probably only be covered - from an educational perspective - at undergraduate level, albeit without the theoretical, "mathsy" depth. As with most of the Dummies books I've seen, the title belies the fact that it's a pretty comprehensive reference, even if the layout and language sometimes makes it seem like it's dumming down the subject. Recommended for beginners in electronics and even those with moderate experience and expertise.

This is a really easy to understand well written book, I did read the reviews before I bought it and yes it is disappointing that the diagrams are not in colour it's the only thing that lets this book down otherwise you will enjoy it.

I haven't read the book properly yet but I've taken the time to flip thru it. And it covers everything you need to know about electronics. I'm actually looking forward to reading the book front to back.

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very good book. easy to understand for all kids. step by step approach. I love it . Tamaghna chaudhuri 12yrs

condition & delivery as advertised. Excellent, understandable for the non electronics trained person.

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