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Also I might try to make a CpE guide this weekend. One thing I can’t stress enough though is that in uni you do labs, and if you want to self-study it’s mandatory that you get some hands-on experience yourself. Getting experience is much easier for programming topics because the books usually assign programming exercises themselves, and all you need to do is download the programming tools. With hardware though, you’ll need to set up an entry level home lab and shell out for some hardware. Also, some classes where labs are required are circuit analysis (the passives and op-amps) and microelectronics (diodes, op-amps, BJTs, MOSFETs, and amplifiers and filters made out of the former). The structure with these labs usually goes 1. Here’s a circuit. 2. Analyze it on paper to find some value or values, like voltage out / voltage in. 3. Simulate it with SPICE to find those values. 4. Build it and measure it with a scope and multimeter. 5. Compare results of analyzed, measured, and simulated circuits.

The textbooks might have example labs in them, if not I know the book Learning the Art of Electronics has labs, and if nothing else you could probably find some lab assignments on public university pages.

Another lab class is anything involving microcontrollers. Check out Jonathan Valvano’s books for this. They’re based on the TI’s cheap launchpad series.

Finally if you want to study Verilog or VHDL, and FPGA is indispensable. Verilog/VHDL is to an FPGA what C is to a microcontroller. Get an Altera DE0.