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I thought that the reason for going to school is because that's where they teach you these things anyway. Don't your teachers know what books you're supposed to have for their classes? Didn't you sign up through a course catalog of some kind, that would tell you which class to take first?

What am I missing?

Thanks, Rich

Rich,

You obviously put much too much faith in institutions of higher education! This group needs a FAQ, as it seems every day someone comes with a "Hey, can you help me get started in electronics?" query.

We should have a list of books for beginners who are interested in practical stuff (breadboard etc) and theoretical stuff (basic physics).

Eric

It takes at least one person who is willing to collect and organize the information from different sources and set up a web site. That person can ask in the newsgroup for help with facts or explanations.

The result could be a web site which we can refer to.

Something like this, maybe? "This is a FAQ for seb, created by Eric Thomson, with kind assistance of the participators of seb."

or

"This is a web site about elementary electronics, created by the participators of the discussion group sci.electr.. Current editor: Eric Thomson."

It can be inspirational to look at the web site the participators of alt.comp.freeware have achieved, at

But that is an example of a very advanced and massive web site. They found a girl who likes to run it and update it. People tell her about updates and ideas for the web site and she often asks the group for its meaning on different issues.

Voting about the best freeware programs is organized once a year and the groups selection is presented on the web site. The web site also contains other stuff the group has suggested. Another guy has started a wiki web site and he cooperates with the girl and a few others about issues which are not worth discussing in the group.

They needed to get a new web site for Pricelessware, so they asked for help in the group. 4-5 contributors gave enough money to run the web site for the coming 5 years.

Pricelessware is on its way to becoming known, computer magazines and bloggers talk about it, and increasing numbers of people use the web site. This is what can be achieved through voluntary cooperation.

Think about the other end of the scale of commitment. Could we achieve something worth looking at for a beginner, even though we are lazy bastards, and can we do it without even getting sweaty?

I am too occupied with other things, but maybe you could do it?

Good idea. I could take it on, but I am not good at all with electronics yet! I'll think up some stuff, and start a new thread on the topic...

Best, Eric

Any books to suggest? I am willing to write and maintain a FAQ, but no one can seem to agree on what they want in it.

Hi all

I'm a newbie to electronics. A book I'm reading at the moment, which I purchased from

Title: Starting Electronics, (Second edition). Author: Keith Brindley ISBN: 0 - 7506 - 4435 - 4

The author uses breadboards to build, and explain, various circuits.

Also, I found the following websites, which I find to be very helpful in explaining some basic stuff that might be of interest to other newbies:

HTH

hermit50