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Customer Reviews for: The Art of Electronics

  

Rating 5 out of 5 - A Summary of the Undergraduate Electrical Engineering Curric
This book is an excellent desk reference for review of electrical engineering and electronics. It is very brief and summarizes a lot of material in one book. However, this not a book you can read with no background knowledge in electronics. If you have decent knowledge on electronics and engineering, this book can help you recall much information that you forgot and/or introduce you to many devices and concepts that you may have never come across. It's a great handy shelf reference.
Rating 3 out of 5 - Non Academic !! Leasure time stuff !!
This book is not good for Academic work but it seems to be
useful in Industry.I found it useless for attacking exam
questions.But it describes rough behaviour of devices which
looks intuitive but useless for exams which bank more on
formal methods.
Rating 4 out of 5 - Excellent Reference
The book is a reference, not a textbook. Helps dislodge old memories from circuits classes taken long ago. Anyone who has to design a myriad of circuits or is trying to remember some basic tricks will find this book invaluable. It isn't very theoretical but it cuts to the chase. I have to patch together many different types of test circuits for IC testing and this book gets well used. If you want basic theory get a textbook but if you need to make something that works reasonably well very quickly, this book is quite good.
Rating 1 out of 5 - ... heavy book with very little amount of example
This book indeed talks about electornic. But it does in such a very elaborate way... Sounds goods... NO... Text book need no elaboration.
Good:
-The size of the book is designed so that it can be a good pillow

Bad:
-They tried so much to avoid the math which makes their explaination very vague and weak. And it is very difficult to understand the component explicitly by just reading words.
-They gives too little amount of example. In one chapter you will see less than 3 examples given explicitly
-They tends to talk rather than giving out the information. They spend a page trying to explain a circuit component, but they spend 3 half-line s to write down the important componet equation.
-I don't know if this situation happens to anyone else.. Everytime I read this book I fell asleep.. The book should stop talking and give me more explicit information in mathematically oriented way and examples to clarify things.
-The exercises in the book has no solution. I can't verify myself if my understanding is right.

Bottom Line- Don't ever buy this book if it is neither a requirement nor you need a before-bed book.
Rating 3 out of 5 - excellent text.. but well outdated
excellent text.. but a lot of the information is outdated... it serves as a good stepping stone into the present... the newer engineers aren't exposed to some of the primitive technologies... which in my mind is a disadvantage...

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