electronic tutorials - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / beginners

author: Lui
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: March 26, 2013, 05:34:15 pm
content: Hi to everyone!I am new to this blog and electronics and would like to learn about electronics, can anyone please help me to find electronic tutorials materials on the web?any suggestion will be appreciated.thanksLui

author: kxenos
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 26, 2013, 06:38:04 pm
content: Hi Lui, welcome to the magic world of electrons.The one and only thing you have to do IMO (without spending any money) is to watch the MITx 6.002 course with Dr. Agarwal and his chainsaw. (!!) Better still, if you could enroll to the course.After doing this you will grasp the basic idea and you can move on from there!Good luck!Edit:You can also have a look here:https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/electronics-primers-course-material-and-books/

author: Farley
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 27, 2013, 03:26:59 am
content: I've found these useful:https://www.youtube.com/user/w2aew

author: Todd
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: March 27, 2013, 04:23:57 pm
content: This site has an excellent online textbook (also available in pdf if you prefer) and an active forum supporting it.http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/

author: MikeK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 27, 2013, 04:39:11 pm
content: My gripe about AAC is that they teach electron flow, not conventional current flow, which will confuse most beginners.

author: Lui
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: March 27, 2013, 05:20:26 pm
content: Thanks for the replies!I will look at all of them.cheers

author: MacAttak
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 28, 2013, 01:56:44 am
content: I liked the approach of teaching electron flow in AAC. It didn't make it any harder for me, and it makes the semiconductor theory make a LOT more sense.I hate it when something is left up to "magic" - and many attempts to teach via conventional current flow seems to be left to magic to the beginner. Often they will preface with "by the way, the electrons actually travel the opposite direction, but here we will just do everything backwards from reality because Ben Franklin guessed wrong". Sometimes they will make a half-hearted effort to describe holes or charge carriers, but really... at that point in the learning curve the author might as well be talking about oreos and lawnmowers - because there is no foundation yet to make any sense of those things yet.

author: Erwin
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: March 28, 2013, 01:57:50 am
content: I would suggest you read the book: The Tab Electronics Guide to Understanding Electricity and Electronics'before' reading tutorials on the internet. Understanding the basics makes everything easier to understand later on. That's the book that got me started.

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 28, 2013, 03:18:20 am
content: Quote from: MikeK on March 27, 2013, 04:39:11 pmIt was easy enough for first year Tech College students to understand that there were two conventions,back in the day!It took probably about half an hour & everybody was across it.

author: aparlett
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 28, 2013, 01:04:16 pm
content: all about circuits is awsome.But buy a cheap meter and a bread board and just have a play aroundQuote from: Todd on March 27, 2013, 04:23:57 pm

author: Lui
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: March 29, 2013, 08:30:55 pm
content: Thanks for all the suggestions.found three books in my local library1-Electronics for dummies2-Electronics, The Easy Way3-Practical electronics, A Self - Teaching Guidegot cheap multimeter too :-) and some resistors and capacitors and other stuff,let see what can I do with them))))))thanks again for your advice.

author: N TYPE
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 30, 2013, 09:56:05 am
content: The third book you mentioned Practical Electronics is really good, I Highly recommend getting started with that.

author: MikeK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 31, 2013, 01:25:18 am
content: This was another good one:http://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/

author: vk3yedotcom
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 31, 2013, 02:24:19 am
content: Alsohttp://www.talkingelectronics.comhttp://my.integritynet.com.au/purdic/

author: Lui
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: April 01, 2013, 03:45:18 pm
content: Thanks for the replies!I will look at all of them.cheersLui