Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course 1st Edition

This booklet is not a substitution for the full "Art of Electronics" textbook, but it is an excellent guide to lab exercises based on the main text. The style is informal, even witty—a valuable addition to a library for the self-study of electronics.

Highly recommend, I was looking to get back into electronics and this was really the best way for me. The book takes you through the typical college course starting out with analog electronics then going into digital electronics. They cover basic and useful common circuit topologies and the ideas to manipulate the circuit for your applications. I personally would have liked a little more math, I feel like it could helped explain some of the concepts better but that's just me. Overall great book, definitely one of the best ones out there. Still not perfect but if your going to get a electronics book get this one for sure, better then the rest on the market.

So much material ranging from analog circuits to microcontroller programming gives me the feeling that no stone is left unturned. I really like the fact there are lots of oscilloscope waveforms shown (instead of just sketches like in other college books) as well as many useful hints in their waveform/circuit diagrams.

A of E seems to be the gold standard of electronics books, what I always hear the "classic" of all electronics books. It claims to be usable as a stand alone book. but I found I still need the textbook as it's companion. Just look around on YouTube to see the reviews to see if this is what you are looking for.There is a 2018 AARL 6-section electronics manual. It appears to be sold out, but one known electronics YouTube channel gave a review of that set and it looked interesting.I do want to get a bookshelf of electronics books..and digital version are handy for search and 7" tablet reading. regarding digital books, I have found that to reference page numbers can only be done with PDFs.FYI: I also have an older, 6th edition of Malvino electronics (my favorite for the basics. Just remember it does not get into IC's but integrated chips are really just pre-built circuits with passives and semiconductors, transistors and triacs. The third book is Electronics for inventors. I had been given the first edition. the 3rd edition is much better, however Paul does have a difficulty in making mistakes..These three books make my electronics collection for the foreseen future.

Excellent textbook. I'm preparing to use it in my class next semester. The one downside is the authors assume you have a large budget for equipment. For example, they assume you purchase $200 breadboard with lots of bells and whistles. Besides that, the pacing and level of presentation seem great.

I took the course that this book describes, and I really did learn a lot by reading the book. There is SO MUCH good stuff in here, and the labs are pretty comprehensive. Sometimes, it can even be a bit overwhelming, and it would actually be nice if occasionally the book called out the extremely important concepts or circuits that you'll find yourself going back to - there are a lot of diagrams, figures, and text blocks, and it can be easy to get lost. I suppose that's what my highlighter was for, though, so I don't really knock it for that! What I do knock it for are the ABSURD metaphors and drawings that Hayes puts in his book - they're like unfunny dad jokes (and I like dad jokes) that just confuse you if you try to actually understand what he meant by them. I can't think of a single time the darn "dog" metaphor actually came in handy, and every time I saw one of his weird metaphors (usually accompanied by a weird drawing) I just rolled my eyes and skipped over it.

If you purchased the hands on lab course Learning The Art of Electronics (pub 2016) and want to do all the labs, you will find a very time consuming and tedious task of ordering the parts as there are over 135 distinct part numbers from 9 suppliers. Luckily, at the EEVblog forum, BobsURuncle posted Excel spreadsheets with all the parts organized in a format where they can be uploaded into the parts distributors shopping carts. This will save you hours of your time. Search for "Learning The Art Of Electronics - Parts BOM".

Been wanting to learn what I can about electronics, and man is there a lot to learn. Not really in the know as far as electronics go, but it seems to have a decent amount of information for me to learn and I can't wait to get to it. Hoping to use this book, as well as the books, "Make Electronics" and "Practical Electronics for Inventors" to help me gain a solid understanding of the fundamentals of electronic circuits. Although the $60 I paid seems a little steep, considering the information "Practical Electronics for Inventors" offers for half the price.