Hey Anthony, welcome to the electronics addiction club!
Can you give us an idea of any experience you have with electronics (classes, reading interests etc)? What are your goals in regards to learning circuits? Is there something that caught your interest and wanted to make, or learn how it works? Do you want to get into designing things with embedded systems like arduino or the Raspberry Pi, or do you want to explore the analog realm and work with things like audio amplifiers and sensors?
In general, a good place to start is the site All About Circuits [All About Circuits : Free Electric Circuits Textbooks], it will teach you all the way from the basics to some pretty advanced topics. If you're more of the hands on type I would suggest buying a micro controller board like Arduino and exploring what you can make and interact with.
Thank you for your reply and sorry for the late reply.
The only experience i have as of right now is replacing capacitors in dell monitors. So i have some soldering skills but would like to better learn and understand how and why circuits.
I have a Raspberry PI but on use it as a Media center but i am willing to change that and use it for projects
If you're interested in circuits (rather than programming) then I think it may be a very uphill struggle trying to learn only from forums or websites.
There is information dotted around the web, for example this PDF presentation on basic electronics but it's just a summary and you'd need to google the different topics in there to learn more. So basically you'd need to be prepared to research and self-learn a lot, and it could get frustrating.
However, there are some offline resources (books) which will make life easier. Forrest Mim's book is not bad. It doesn't have a lot of math, and so is easy to get into. It's easy-going, and has lots of practical circuits to experiment with.
This has nothing to do with the Raspberry Pi however. But, basic electronics will help with later understanding how to interface things to computers.
I would read some basic stuff. ARRL handbooks from the day are pretty good, Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill is both breezy and fairly comprehensive. NW library has every amateur radio magazine from Marconi. Here are some cool classic ANs:
Actually, to become a fluent, fluid, general electronics designer takes a decade of hard work. Not everyone who is certified in electronics is actually comfortable with it. It is one the crown jewels of pedagogy.
