greetings gurus
i've been trying for some time now (though admittedly off-and-on) to self-learn basic electronics, and it's painfully clear by now that i have rocks in my head in this respect. what i AM quite good at, though, is mathematics and language learning (including programming languages), so my idea is to try using spice as a way of puzzling out what the books are trying (with so little success) to tell me. to realize this goal i need to find a suitable spice interpreter and some clear directions for doing what i want to do, which is feeding spice-language code to the interpreter and getting the information it returns about the circuit in question. the freeware/demo applications i've looked at so far have extensive graphical interfaces but i can't piece together how to enter code directly or whether that's even possible. any help would be much appreciated.
peace stm