Circuit Engineering: The Beginner's Guide to Electronic Circuits, Semi-Conductors, Circuit Boards, and Basic Electronics

I was really nervous that I would not be able to understand this book. I am really interested in Circuit Engineering but I was really afraid it would be very difficult to understand. I decided to buy this book Circuit Engineering:The Beginner's Guide to Electronic Circuits, Semi-Conductors, Circuit Boards, and Basic Electronics. It has been the best well written easy to follow book I have read about circuit engineering. It has a lot of information about circuits and circuit boards and it makes learning about them very interesting. I was interested in what it taught me about the parts of a computer. I never did understand fully how circuits work and this book taught me on my level all about circuit engineering. I received this book at a discount for an honest review.

This is quite literally an Intro to Electrical Engineering book. It scrapes the surface of everything electronic. It's a great gift to give a high school student on the fence about engineering or to a freshman in engineering who doesn't know what field to go into. It covers all the basic discrete components and talks about some aspects of advanced electronics.

The English is so bad you can't understand even the basic equations. It targets beginners, but even gets into quantum field theory! After an exhaustive laundry list of bulleted formulas, many advanced, including integral and differential calculus, it jumps into a few basic circuit projects including a "how to solder" section that is terrible. A bunch of 5 stars indicated they got this free! One said it was "great for a 10 year old" -- I can't believe any of these people actually tried "reading" it??? I worked through the entire book and it is a just all over the place. I'm an engineer and was considering Christmas gifts, this is definitely off my list. I paid 3 bucks and wasted my time and money, so if you can get it free, you'll only be wasting your time! Avoid, many others out there that are much better, including many free forums and free course sites like Coursera.

its a book, good info

Lots of good tips and circuits in this book

A friend who graduated in electrical engineering gave me this book to solve electrical circuits in my work. The book is very practical, I recommend accompany the study of electrical circuits with another book to obtain more information, as this book is very brief. I am not convinced about some definitions and diagrams, but there are some examples that are easy to understand. The language is not very technical, is so trivial that the amateurs could use this book.

The book is weird. I don't care much about language quality, but I am not sure what audience this book is intended for. It goes back and forth between explaining some very basics of electricity using almost childish language to assuming some fairly advanced knowledge. It mixes some actual useful information with a lot of author's musings about what circuit engineering is supposed to be. The order information is presented in is somewhat bizarre. Basically, if you are starting from the very beginning, this book is not for you because it is missing a lot of key information that beginners need. And if you are not a beginner this book is not technical or advanced enough for anything you might need to know.

Meet expectations

Excellent introduction to electronic circuitry. Good underpinning knowledge and detail. Useful as a reference point as you learn. Thank you.

Good

Avoid at all costs. He never uses a single syllable word if he could use 4 instead. A small sample:- "It works depending on a particular signal level. One example is the integrated circuit that enables a computer to perform a multitude of tasks; instead of loading a computer’s structure with a large circuit, it comes to the rescue." If that is clear to you buy it. It seems to me to be heavily verbose and always goes the longest way to make a point.

I struggled to make sense of this book. It is so badly written it felt like a series of random words just dumped on the page. I question the validity of all those 5 star reviews. I can only assume they must have read a different book!

It reads like a very poor translation from something into English and isn't very helpful and very confusing for a beginner.