Hi everyone, thanks for you replies!

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 06:13:03PM -0800, William Chops Westfield wrote:
>     It's a college textbook (though my college didn't use it).  IT's
>     called "The Art of Electronics" bu Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill
>     published by Cambridge University Press (ISBN: 0-521-37095-7).
>
> It's an excellant book, but I don't think a $70 hardcover that 9-11th
> graders will use 2 or 3 chapters of is appropriate here...

Yes, that is right, I'm looking for a book that is very elementary. One such
as the OP Mims book :(

> IIRC, my highschool electronics class didn't get very far beyond ohms
> law and t=RC, and didn't use a textbook.  Emphasis was on building
> something, learning to solder, recognizing components and having at
> least a vague idea of what they did (heh.  Items that were rather
> missing from most of my college EE program.  Boy were they surprised
> senior year when it came time for everyone to put something together!)
> (Don't forget.  Algebra skills may be missing, and probably no one has
> any calculus...)

I don't really need a textbook for the class (I have enough of my own to
develop the material), but I would like to an appropriate book that
interested kids can have after the class is finished.

Thanks for your help, Matthew.

--
Matthew Miller
SVCC College Bound, Technology Coordinator

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