Hi, You might like to take a look at Bebop To the Boolean Boogie http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=72-9780750675437-0 and Op Amps for Everyone http://www.amazon.com/Op-Amps-Everyone-Ron-Mancini/dp/0750677015 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Shriver" To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 6:16 PM Subject: [OT] EE for CsE > Greetings again, > > A while back several people gave me some good recommendations > for books to start out in EE. Thought I'd restate my request with an > alteration in meaning. > > I'm a computer programmer, and while I respect EE, at it's purest form > it's really not for me. I have some nifty ideas for devices I would > like to implement, but since I lack the EE knowledge to do so, thought > I'd try and get a basic understanding of EE. > > If everything had to be done with transistors, resistors and various > other low-level parts I'd probably not have started. What makes me > interested in EE from a programmer point of view is that today we have > a lot of nice hardware that abstracts the lower level "physical" layer > of EE. Pics being a good point. > > As I browse Circuit Cellar or websites, I see a lot of nifty little > components that do specific things. Like a chip that is a self > contained wifi container, a single chip GPS container, etc, etc. > > So where I'm learning toward is learning just enough so I can buy > these kind of containers/chips/IC's and use them just as I would in a > program. From a logic point of view they are the same thing as a > function/procedure/object. It takes in input and gives an output. > > Just with EE, you have more things to take into consideration. > Functions don't care about power usage in fear of frying the component > the in's and out's are defined. > > So I'm wondering am I out of luck, or do I really have to spend the > time learning everything from the principles of physics to programming > a PIC/FPGA/etc, or is there a quicker "if you just want to know how to > connect various things together and make them work". Besides it seems > most of these components use a serial interface, and not sure how an > i/o line works exactly. Is that the same thing as a parallel/serial > ports data pin for i/o? > > Thanks for listening, > Josh > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist