Is this book good for learning electronics as a complete beginner?

[Anonymous No.2845372]

Hello /diy/, I'd like to know if this book is good for a complete beginner to use to learn electronics.

[Anonymous No.2845654]

>>2845372
if you just want to fuck around with arduino or esp you don't need to learn anything just copy shit from sparkfun or adafruit
if you actually want to learn then get any old book and read it, you need to learn about what voltage and current actually is (hint: its nothing like water), ohms law, series/parallel resistance, kirchoffs laws, norton and thevenin equivalents, nodal analysis. thats all basic dc, then you look at ac stuff like capacitors and inductors, then you can look at simple semiconductors like diodes or bjts.
pretty much all of that should be covered in, in my opinion, a systematic and well thought out manner (as opposed to any online learning resource which will inevitably lack structure) in pretty much any physical book about electronics from the 80s/90s. maybe even the 70s. go to a library, have a flip through what they have, see if you can find a writing style you enjoy.
thats all essentially analog. if you want to learn digital electronics you can look up boolean logic, basic gates, making gates from other gates, and then building useful blocks like adders and registers. you can learn that in parallel and do it on paper but if you understand the analog side you have a much better grounding for understanding how it works under the hood and is kind of necessary if you want to actually build anything physical.
then you can pretty much forget it all because unless you go into designing silicon all electronics design will be essentially extinct in a few years when everything is done by on board peripheral in uc/asic processors thanks to low cost mass manufacturing.
but the analog stuff will be a good grounding if you jump to trade school to be a sparkie

[Anonymous No.2845744]

>>2845372
>it is true that the job may take a few minutes longer, but it is also true that a fall from the vicinity of an antenna is usually fatal
lol

[Anonymous No.2848247]

>>2845654
i mean it depends what he wants to achieve or make

actually understanding and building stuff from component level is pretty math heavy and complex

piecing together prebuilt components (voltage converters, sensors, analog stuff) is simpler and probably suitable for hobbyists

especially stuff like arduino - it's hardly electronics

besides power stuff who in their right mind does analog stuff for projects anymore anyways, a microprocessor is almost always the simpler more practical solution

[Anonymous No.2848457]

>>2845654
You wrote a rambling 500 word response to a yes/no question, yet it's still not clear whether your underlying answer is "yes" or "no."

[Anonymous No.2849556]

>>2845372
No.
Get a breadboard, and learn how to make resistor dividers, RC filters, BJT amplifiers, op-amp amplifiers, and a blinking light circuit. Learn how to find datasheets for ASICS (the little black plastic chips) and set them up according to their datasheets.
Then start thinking about what kind of projects you want to make, and figure out the rest as you go.
Also, >>>/diy/ohm

[Anonymous No.2849579]

>>2848457
hell yeah, dude.