Electronics for Dummies 3rd Edition

I learned a lot from this, things I never knew about resistance and wattage and how a circuit works. I really just wanted to learn a little about electricity so I’d be less afraid of working with it in my house. It even has little experiments you can do to show you how things work, you just have to buy some fairly inexpensive stuff. It’s a little older because it recommends looking at Radio Shack for some of the items, but you can get everything on Amazon now. If you’re a layman like me, this is a good place to start learning. Worth the money.

I took electricity and electronics in high school about 30 years ago. I've recently started designing/building some of my own ideas and needed a refresher on long forgotten electronics concepts. This book was a quick read and served to quickly freshen up all of the basic knowledge I once had. I've since moved on to a couple of more advanced books for the information I needed for my specific uses, but was glad to have this one to quickly bring me back up to speed on the basics before advancing.

This is a great resource when starting out with low volt electronics. Starts you slow and steady and is easy to understand

Product: This is a standard "For Dummies" book. It is systematically organized and reader/user friendly.Content: I am one of those who was (barely) an engineering major in college for one year before realizing that my calling in life was to major in business administration. I am definitely not someone who is naturally inclined to study anything even remotely technical. One may even say that I have an aversion to such things. I was pleasantly surprised to find myself actually enjoying this book, and even easily grasping concepts that were quite foreign to me. I not only learned from this book, but now that I have an (albeit elementary) understanding of electricity and electronics, I have an active interest in electronics.

It had all the stuff I need to know to take the test .

so far so good, i'm only about 1/3 through it and have learned a bit. I have some electronic knowledge, but I like the projects and testing voltage drop, mA, ohms law and that other stuff I thought I knew, but it's making it all come together. The online supply sources are great. I went to radio shack and they wanted $21.99 for a breadboard I found online for $4 in the online shopping resources found in this book. I still bought some stuff from radio shack, because...well, i don't want them to disappear. If i purchased everything listed in this book from Radio Shack it would cost at least $200+. I got $30 worth of stuff from RS to start with, and ordered 200+ items (LED's, resistors, capacitors, switches etc) online for another $30.

I have had an interest in electronics for as long as I can remember, but never took the time to learn the subject. I bought this book, and before reading purchased all of the components needed. Working through the chapters is fun, and the exercises work. However, the photo reproductions are so dark that they are pretty much useless if you need to refer to them to set up the circuit properly (e.g. pp 188, 190 with transistors). I was finally, after about 45 minutes, able to get the design to work, but if the photo was much clearer, or perhaps just drawn out clearly with notes on orientation and connections, it would have taken far less time. Definitely enjoying the content and I am learning a lot. Overall, a solid beginners book!

Finally a well-written book that starts from the beginning (atomic level), doesn't skip important areas or dots that need to be connected and is written in a format that is excellent for learning. Love the "Remember", "Tip", "Technical Stuff" and "Warning" labels next to paragraphs worth noting! -Dummy

As others have noted, some of the pictures aren’t very clear, but they are good enough to complete the circuits. I’m only about 1/3 thru the book but find it very helpful with explaining the concepts.

There was a time when Dummys books were both good value and, whilst not the most erudite, were a good 'starter' book for the interested reader. Sadly, this is no longer so. Having bought a couple recently, both were outdated, poorly printed and largely a waste of money. Often pictures are smudged, and the paper is poor quality and thinner than a miser's soup. Give Dummy a miss; whatever the subject, there are far better books available at competitive prices.

Great book. Goes from basic to advanced. Just as the book says, like learning ABC 😄 awesome book indeed

This book is very good, honestly. It starts off with the basics and slowly gets more complicated throughout. I also like that they talk about all the different mathematical equations you can use within your circuits, as you really feel like you're learning a breadth of knowledge with minimal knowledge gaps that aren't mentioned.My only gripe with the book is that all of the photos are really dark/underexposed and it makes it really hard to see what's going on with the circuits sometimes. I understand that they may have done that in order to better illustrate the LED lights and that they are shining but making the photos as dark as they were felt really unnecessary.I didn't want to dock the book down a star for that but if I had the option, I would have probably docked half a star.Definitely worth buying, though.

Great help rekindling my interest back into electronics.