Getting Started in Electronics

by Forrest M. Mims III

This is a complete electronics course in 128 pages! Author Forrest Mims teaches you the basics, takes you on a tour of analog and digital components, explains how they work, and shows you how they are combines for various applications. Includes circuit assembly tips and 100 electronic circuits and projects you can build and test.

Paperback

Published January 1, 2000

About the author

Forrest M. Mims III is an amateur scientist, magazine columnist, and author of the popular Getting Started in Electronics and Engineer's Mini-Notebook series of instructional books that was originally sold in Radio Shack electronics stores. Mims graduated from Texas A&M University in 1966 with a major in government and minors in English and history. He became a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force.

Although he has no formal academic training in science,Mims has had a successful career as a science author, researcher, lecturer and syndicated columnist.

Reviews

[Bernie4444]

The best way to learn electronics is through projects

Yep, you can get all the electronic goodies from RadioShack; however, do not overlook Amazon.

Although most of the electronics are now part of IC chips it is nice to touch what you are reading about.

The book itself is written like a lined notebook and the pictures are crude schematics and pictures that you would have seen in a notebook. The wording is in uppercase print. I write that way so it is much easier to read than most fonts.
Might be missing 30+ years in technology. However, the logic is still the same.