Richard,
I don't remember the exact title. It was something generic, like "Basic Electronics" or "Solid-State Electronics" or "Basic Electronics Theory" or "Electronics Fundamentals". I've done some searching on these titles in amazon, b&n, ebay, google, etc and sifted through as many as i could stand. To me, the book seemed rather comprehensive (it went from atomic structure up to programming microcontrollers) but I may not be the best judge of that. It may be total crap for all i know.
So if i were to buy a book, i might as well make sure to buy the right one ;)
What makes me too old? I don't know. I'll be 31 this year. I relent to admit that my math skills are pretty weak. If i were to go back to school to major in CS and minor in EE, a placement test might dictate that I need to do high school all over again. I might be looking at
6-8 years of school, assuming i can afford to go to school full-time (and that i've still got any brains left). By graduation I'll be approaching 40, which isn't the most desireable age for employers.
Robert, I actually have a fair number of Mimms books, which is where my rudimentary understanding of electronics comes from. I have Getting Started and a smattering of the Engineer's Mini-Notebooks. FWIW i've enjoyed each of them. Forrest must be an interesting individual, but i don't know anything else about him.
Thankyou for the other suggestions. The Art Of Electronics is one that I was looking at, but there are so many to choose from on Amazon and I don't know what I'm looking at. Is there any official word of a new edition of this book, or is that all speculation?
I'll have to take a look at the library (haven't made it that far yet) for these, just to see. I had once borrowed from the Library a book called "Basic Electronics" (this is going back maybe 10 years ago in a different state) but that's such a generic title it could be different than Grob. I don't remember the author, and the book was circa 1983 iirc. Might have been an older version of it.
Thanks!