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# 2020 spiral-bound for easy use 128 pages of expert knowledge 100 hands-on circuits & projects Getting Started in Electronics

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## Summary

> ⚡ Empower your inner tech guru with hands-on electronics mastery!

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## Key Features

- • **Build Real Circuits:** 100 practical projects to test your skills and bring theory to life.
- • **Master Electronics Basics:** From analog to digital, learn core concepts with clarity and precision.
- • **User-Friendly Spiral Binding:** Stay organized and flip through lessons effortlessly during your builds.
- • **Ideal for Aspiring Innovators:** Perfect for managers and creators eager to upskill in tech fundamentals.
- • **Expert Guidance by Forrest Mims:** Learn from a trusted author with decades of electronics experience.

## Overview

Getting Started in Electronics is a comprehensive 128-page course by Forrest Mims, featuring a 2020 spiral-bound edition that covers analog and digital components. It includes 100 practical circuits and projects, making it an essential guide for anyone looking to build foundational electronics skills with expert instruction.

## Description

NEW 2020 SPIRAL BOUND EDITION 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.

Review: Off to a Good Start - This is an excellent book to learn the fundamentals to get started learning electronics. I really don't have much of a background in electronics. I got this book because I read about it in Make Magazine. Also I have been trying to complete a correspondence course in electronics. This book reviewed what I had already learned in a fraction of the number of pages that I had to read. It also introduce things that my course hasn't cover yet. Not bad for 128 pages. Think about it: many high schools don't have an electronics program. Mine didn't. It isn't that the material is unimportant or doesn't have job opportunities. The electronic field is huge. This is the book to start with if you know nothing of electronics and are doing a self study. The book is easy to understand. It wasn't until it discusses "Digital Integrated Circuits" in chapter 6 that I did not have a full understanding of the material. But I guess this is just a "start" to learning such topics. But I think it works, because it is more advanced and thus gets the reader's interest. However diode and transistor gates can become complicated. It is important to note there is not much math here except for some basic algebra. A few formulas, truth tables, and graphs of functions are present but the book uses them to show how electronics are represented and not to have the reader do many math problems. I have yet to build the circuit projects in the back of the book. That is the next step. Forrest Mims, the author, states that you have to do them to get the complete understanding of circuits. That makes sense. In summary, this is an excellent book and I give it a high recommendation. It is the fastest way to learn all about electronics that you were never taught.
Review: Perfect for intelligent people with little prior knowledge of electronics - This book is great. Amazingly as the desertcart prompt came it to review it I had the book sitting right there next to my computer. I've read it from cover to cover and reread the bits I'm really interested in. What I like most about this book is that it is written by someone who clearly knows everything there is to know about electronics and then, not only distilled it down to just the necessary facts to 'get started in electronics', but he's presented the material as if I'd written my own notes in a lecture - actually the diagrams he draws are much better than anything I could draw. So everything in the book seems to be spot on my level of understanding, and really, if you have any real interest in electronics I can't see how you could not understand the information as it is presented. Highly recommend this book to anyone who has no prior knowledge or only the most basic understanding of electronics but has the desire to learn more and simply needs the explanations to be intelligent, not for an idiot, the jargon removed and the analogies easy to relate to. Forrest hits the nail right on the head. Oh, and I bought another of his books "Engineer's Notebook" which is the subject of another review but is basically a logically next step after you've 'Started in Electronics'.

## Features

- This is a complete electronics course in 128 pages! Author Forrest Mims teaches you the basics, take

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #15,283 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #5 in Physics of Electricity #16 in Electrical & Electronics (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 770 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Off to a Good Start
*by T***L on January 11, 2008*

This is an excellent book to learn the fundamentals to get started learning electronics. I really don't have much of a background in electronics. I got this book because I read about it in Make Magazine. Also I have been trying to complete a correspondence course in electronics. This book reviewed what I had already learned in a fraction of the number of pages that I had to read. It also introduce things that my course hasn't cover yet. Not bad for 128 pages. Think about it: many high schools don't have an electronics program. Mine didn't. It isn't that the material is unimportant or doesn't have job opportunities. The electronic field is huge. This is the book to start with if you know nothing of electronics and are doing a self study. The book is easy to understand. It wasn't until it discusses "Digital Integrated Circuits" in chapter 6 that I did not have a full understanding of the material. But I guess this is just a "start" to learning such topics. But I think it works, because it is more advanced and thus gets the reader's interest. However diode and transistor gates can become complicated. It is important to note there is not much math here except for some basic algebra. A few formulas, truth tables, and graphs of functions are present but the book uses them to show how electronics are represented and not to have the reader do many math problems. I have yet to build the circuit projects in the back of the book. That is the next step. Forrest Mims, the author, states that you have to do them to get the complete understanding of circuits. That makes sense. In summary, this is an excellent book and I give it a high recommendation. It is the fastest way to learn all about electronics that you were never taught.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Perfect for intelligent people with little prior knowledge of electronics
*by W***E on September 12, 2014*

This book is great. Amazingly as the Amazon prompt came it to review it I had the book sitting right there next to my computer. I've read it from cover to cover and reread the bits I'm really interested in. What I like most about this book is that it is written by someone who clearly knows everything there is to know about electronics and then, not only distilled it down to just the necessary facts to 'get started in electronics', but he's presented the material as if I'd written my own notes in a lecture - actually the diagrams he draws are much better than anything I could draw. So everything in the book seems to be spot on my level of understanding, and really, if you have any real interest in electronics I can't see how you could not understand the information as it is presented. Highly recommend this book to anyone who has no prior knowledge or only the most basic understanding of electronics but has the desire to learn more and simply needs the explanations to be intelligent, not for an idiot, the jargon removed and the analogies easy to relate to. Forrest hits the nail right on the head. Oh, and I bought another of his books "Engineer's Notebook" which is the subject of another review but is basically a logically next step after you've 'Started in Electronics'.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The BEST book for starting electronics students
*by A***R on December 13, 2023*

Forrest Mims is a genius in his simple, yet accurate way of explaining things in this beginner's guide to electronics. Although modern electronics have gone all surface-mount and integrated circuits, this book still gives you the fundamentals in understanding the basics that you need. If you're young and considering engineering or electronics, this is a must-read book! It also has many practical projects you can build with breadboards... Unfortunately there is no Radio Shack anymore to buy components, but Amazon has most of what you would need. 100% a favorite of mine. I have three copies for my 9th grade classroom.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Getting Started in Electronics
- Make: Electronics: Learning by Discovery: A hands-on primer for the new electronics enthusiast
- Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition

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