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Re: Ask HN: What are some nice electronics courses that blend theory and practice?

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Post by jeffwass » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 5:08 PM UTC

dmritard96 wrote: post #46

http://mightyohm.com/blog/2008/12/the-greatest-electronics-b... In elementary/middle and even high school I absolutely loved this book. I even had a backup copy. It might be a bit more basic than you need if you studied it in college though.

Somehow I knew before clicking the link that it would be this book.

I also read it several times, my father's copy in junior high, a copy I bought in high school, and another copy in early college.

Though I'd probably recommend the Art of Electeonics as mentioned up thread, along with the student manual. I took that Physics 123 class at Harvard taught by Horowitz and Hayes, and it was amazing.

Re: Ask HN: What are some nice electronics courses that blend theory and practice?

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Post by grandalf » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 8:06 PM UTC

davegoliath wrote: post #42

grandalf wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is what I want too. I imagine I could learn what I want to learn about 20x faster with such a game. BTW if you want to collaborate together to spec out the game we want maybe someone who already understands the relevant theory can help create such a game. I want to start with questions like: - create a voltage divider to do ___ - what value of resistor is needed to bias the transistor properly to start oscillati…

I commented below, and I would be happy to collaborate and can provide the theory as well as development. I'd love to get in contact, you can reach me at davep dot goliath @ gmail dot com

sent you an email

Re: Ask HN: What are some nice electronics courses that blend theory and practice?

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Post by Jugurtha » Fri, Jan 09, 2015, 2:03 PM UTC

mafuyu wrote: post #3

I highly recommend the Student Guide to the Art of Electronics: http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Electronics-Student-Manual/dp/... The book covers the basics of both analog and digital, and focuses on developing intuition without getting _too_ bogged down by theory, with accompanying labs/projects. I took the course taught by the author of the book before going to school to study the same subject area, and it helped me…

Hello,

I wouldn't recomment The Art of Electronics, at all. Sure, it's an amazing book, but TAOE breezes through foundations and OP says he only remembers Kirchhoff's law.

I think OP wants a book that takes him from there: Tony Kuphaldt's series of books (available for free to download) titled: "Lessons in Electric Circuits".

These babies are 6 books: DC, AC, Semiconductors, Digital.

There's also a book for Experiments where you get the info you need to set up a home lab, and then experiment with the stuff you learned the theory of in the other books.

And a reference book you go to.

http://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/

The author has also a book titled: "Lessons in Industrial Instrumentation".

"Electronics" is a very vast domain. A lot of reading is needed to itch a specific scratch.

For example, our course about transistors. Yeah, solid physics and band gaps and holes, and manufacturing...

Then after you start using them, you work with "The gain, Beta, is 200". And you go "What makes it 200?"

Like in the manufacturing process, how do you make it that way.

Then you read the late Hans Camenzind's great "Designing Analog Chips" and get to where he explains the influence of the Base thickness.. And you go "Whooaaa". You scratched an itch you had for a long time. The books you read didn't answer that specific question.

Camenzind made the circuit you probably know, NE555. The book is available for free on his site:

http://www.designinganalogchips.com/

Good luck, and if you need anything (resources, etc), feel free to contact me.