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

This volume is rated by Kindle as requiring 2.5 hours to read; I gave it a serious half-hour of my time before accepting the fact that I was more confused by it than enlightened. Best example is an early one-the author is describing different types of circuits and distinguishes parallel from series circuits. What he comes up with to distinguish the two could be done almost non-verbally with a simple line diagram, but he chooses to stick to a written description. That description is long, obscure and confusing at best, and could be interpreted as 180 degrees wrong. It is incomprehensible, an adjective that could be applied to much of 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.

I just want my money back. The language used is stilted and some places reads like a series of unrelated words strung together in random patterns. No real explanation of foundational concepts is present here. I would not recommend this book to anyone even if it was free.

What a HUGE waste of money! I can't imagine this thing made it past an editors desk. It's as if the author has strung together a bunch of random words and decided to sell them as a book. The number of positive reviews is concerning. One reviewer says "Anything your want to learn is in this book!!" and that she "learned how to rewire simple houshold device after buying and reading this book." How she learned anything from this book is a mystery to me...........are these positive reviews fake? Did they read the same POS book I did?

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.

Meet expectations

its a book, good info

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!

Great product

Good

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

A simple beginners book and worth every penny.

this book is £3 on kindle because it complete xxllxxit …High level and poor description of electricity at a theoretical physics level , which is $$ck all use to anybody.The only good bit is the hardware hacking techniques... FIB etc and making a standard usb charger run off a battery, … it was worth £3 to just become aware of FIB... but seriously 75% of the book is complete xxxxxcks !