Anonymous at Fri, 14 Feb 2025 23:55:40 UTC No. 16586169

>>16586144
Start with the Art of Electronics
>t. first book on the subject I read at about age 10 before getting into the professional engineering reference manuals as a teen

Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 00:00:33 UTC No. 16586172

>>16586169
This, Bio MS, CS undergrad
AoE stands proudly by MBoC as some of the best textbooks

Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 05:52:07 UTC No. 16586356

>>16586169
>>16586172
Do people actually learn electrical engineering from the AoE meme book? I thought it was just one of those books like the K&R C book that everybody had in their shelves but nobody actually learned from.
I remember I learned what a capacitor and a transistor were from a much shorter book, titled "Electronic Circuits: Fundamentals and Applications" by Mike Tooley, but most of my learning actually took place just fucking around with multimeters and measuring stuff. I also took some electronics/EE-ish courses in college, but I feel like I learned more by reading datasheets and then trying shit out than just going through thick-ass textbooks.
I remember the first time I felt like I understood the difference between real and ideal op-amps was when I tried building a light-detecting circuit.

Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 07:37:55 UTC No. 16586429

>>16586356
>Do people actually learn electrical engineering from the AoE meme book?
good for reference when dealing with certain subjects that you want to understand.

Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 16:51:07 UTC No. 16586849

>>16586356
phys 123 was intended to be a single-semester electronics course for non-EE majors, AoE was borne out of the class notes for that course. It's more of a massive reference than the start of an EE degree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCI3B5eT9NA

Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 16:52:26 UTC No. 16586855

https://youtu.be/f4-jbobSll4

Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:27:01 UTC No. 16588960

>>16586356
i like to read short sections of it to quickly learn things as needed, reading it front to back sucks

Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 09:45:50 UTC No. 16589024

>>16586356
K&R C is an okay introduction to C, the real CS meme book is obviously SICP, which is a book you can read through entirely and carefully without ever learning a single actually useful thing.

Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:11:21 UTC No. 16589308

>>16589024
>K&R C is an okay introduction to C, the real CS meme book is obviously SICP
C was the first programming language I learned (unless you count pseudocode as a programming language), but I just used my instructor's notes for reference, primarily because my instructor warned me and the rest of class not to use the K&R book.
I don't think I ever got past the preface in the SICP book.
>>16586849
Yeah, I've heard that before, but it feels like Learning the Art of Electronics would be more suited for that than AoE itself (which is funny, considering that Learning the Art of Electronics did not come out until over 3 decades after the original AoE).