Electronics For Dummies
by Earl Boysen, Gordon McComb
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Book Reviews of Electronics For Dummies
Book Review: No Good
Summary: 2 Stars
After reading this book cover to cover I finished with a vague understanding of the concepts of electricity, almost no understanding of components, and absolutely no understanding of any of the projects or circuits it showed. He will go over certain concepts endlessly (like what a soldering iron is, or how a switch works) but then will leave transistors, diodes, and capacitors to be explained in a paragraph. I had to clarify everything with my own research, I am getting a different book.Book Review: Skips from very basic to quite complicated
Summary: 3 Stars
This book starts out with a well written introduction on different type of electronic components and how voltage etc... works, most of it is however covered in highschool physics. Then it howeverskips to semi complicated circuits with bad explanations on how they work. In my opinion the author should rather have described a few circuits in detail instead of many breifly, this would have given the reader a a much clearer understanding of electronics and circuitry. Overall im dissapointed.Book Review: Very handy
Summary: 5 Stars
I picked this up because I needed to learn some fundamentals about electricity. I actually bought my first copy (which my dog ate and had to be replaced) at a retail store, so I got to do a side by side comparison with other "beginner" type books. The dummies guide gave the most basic, but not dumb introductions to the basic components and theories of electricity.
If you need to get a good foot hold for some basic projects this is a great place to begin.
Book Review: You leave with no more than when you arrived
Summary: 1 Stars
This book does not explain enough of what is going on. It is way way way too superficial. One of the neat things about electronics is that it is not that heard to understand what is really going on, and what individual components do. That is knowledge you can build in. This book does not deliver that, despite having numerous pages devotes to the most insanely pedestrian subjects. The good tidbits here could be condensed down to a 10 page pamphlet.Book Review: still looking for best entry level electronics book
Summary: 2 Stars
I truly am the target audience for this book - a novice.
The problem with this book - the author is not thinking of the beginner. He jumps in and starts refering to components before explaining what each component is.
You don't teach reading before you teach the alphabet.
Sometimes a book needs to be edited by a novice and not an expert.