If I have the following books,Practical Electronics for Inventors,and Basic Electronics, will the Art of electronics be necessary or should I say helpful?
If I have the following books,Practical Electronics for Inventors,and Basic Electronics, will the Art of electronics be necessary or should I say helpful?
Hi James,
Basic Electronics looks very basic from the free sample chapter online.
Practical Electronics for Inventors looks like an interesting book in places, but Amazon's 'surprise me' book page preview shows some pages to be very basic too (just an opinion) - almost to me feels like an intention to waste space. I don't see why nearly an entire page is needed to show some filament lamps, and another entire page on a few forms of connectors. In contrast, AoE packed what looks like twice as many connectors into a half page photo. Similarly the lamps and LEDs page in AoE are in a 1/3 page size photo (of real components, not line drawings) with probably twice as many parts.
No I don't think AoE (or the other two books) is necessary, since people get by without these particular books too, but AoE is the better book of the three if you have the choice - again, just an opinion.
AoE is a more advanced book possibly.
Here are some example pages (size reduced for fair use) so you can compare PE and AoE:
Practical Electronics for Inventors, lamps page:
Practical Electronics for Inventors, a connector page (an inconsistent layout compared with the lamps page - I don't know why):
AoE pages for comparison - an LED page
AoE - a connector page
Hi James,
Basic Electronics looks very basic from the free sample chapter online.
Practical Electronics for Inventors looks like an interesting book in places, but Amazon's 'surprise me' book page preview shows some pages to be very basic too (just an opinion) - almost to me feels like an intention to waste space. I don't see why nearly an entire page is needed to show some filament lamps, and another entire page on a few forms of connectors. In contrast, AoE packed what looks like twice as many connectors into a half page photo. Similarly the lamps and LEDs page in AoE are in a 1/3 page size photo (of real components, not line drawings) with probably twice as many parts.
No I don't think AoE (or the other two books) is necessary, since people get by without these particular books too, but AoE is the better book of the three if you have the choice - again, just an opinion.
AoE is a more advanced book possibly.
Here are some example pages (size reduced for fair use) so you can compare PE and AoE:
Practical Electronics for Inventors, lamps page:
Practical Electronics for Inventors, a connector page (an inconsistent layout compared with the lamps page - I don't know why):
AoE pages for comparison - an LED page
AoE - a connector page
