Hi Lindy, You might try "The Art of Electronics" by Horowitz and Hill. It was written to teach undergraduate physics students how to do practical electronics stuff for experiments. However, it has much wider application. If you are somewhat science/math oriented but a total nubie at electronics, it should be just the right thing for you. Sean On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Lindy Mayfield wrote: > What I meant to say was it took me about 30 years to realize that the beg= inning books on electronics I read weren't enough and that beating myself u= p for not "getting" it was in vain. > > I totally didn't mean to say anything personal about anyone one way or an= other. > > A discussion about how to get from beginner to the next step to someone k= nowledgeable about electronics is, IMHO, a better discussion. > > Am I wrong here? - > When reading mathematics books they seem to spend about a page on the bas= ics (if that much) before jumping right into the difficult stuff. For elec= tronics it seems to me that the approach is similar. I haven't found any g= ood books that take a beginner slowly to each next step. (If there is, I'd= love to buy it!) It's possible, too, that I just don't get it. Yet. > > If you study music, say piano, then you go baby step by baby step from be= ginner. When learning computer languages the approaches are similar. Litt= le by little. > > Anyway, I'm still trying. That can't be all bad. > > -----Original Message----- > From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf = Of Rolf > Sent: 26. kes=E4kuuta 2008 17:19 > To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.; olin_piclist@embedinc.com > Subject: Re: [OT] Apologies to Olin > > Rolf wrote: > > > -- > 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