On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 13:23:52 +0100, Theo wrote:

> Martin Gregorie  wrote:
>> How does 'Practical Electronics for Inventors' by Paul Scherz & Simon
>> Monk compare with H&H?
>>
>> I've seen reviews that give the two books equal star ratings and say
>> there's enough content overlap that you only need one of them.
>
> I wouldn't trust star ratings for anything like this, but there's a PDF
> copy of Scherz & Monk 3rd Ed around so I had a brief look.
>
> I think the main difference is S&M is an _encyclopaedia_ and H&H is a
> _cookbook_.  S&M has lots of pages on 'what things are', while H&H is
> full of examples of 'here's how to solve problem X'.
>
> Of course, to do that H&H is also pretty encyclopaedic, but you can then
> follow through into the applications.  It's also feasible to dip into
> like that: you don't need to fully understand the chapter on the
> behaviour of eggs before finding a recipe for souffle.
>
> Suffice it to say, since I bought a copy of H&H 2nd edition there's only
> been one practical electronics book to top it - and that's H&H 3rd
> edition.
>
Thanks for that. What you say is almost the reverse of what I read into
the Amazon blurbs for the two books. However, the buyer reviews were
pretty much identical except that a few didn't like the layout and
diagram positioning in S&M.

I'm fairly certain that the old Lancaster books will see me through the
projects I currently have in mind but I've got H&H bookmarked in case I
need it later.

Fortunately for me, the electronics on these projects is little more than
interfacing an RPi to a PICAXE or to non-digital stuff, with the more
interesting/challenging bits being implemented in C or PICAXE 'Basic'.

Oh well: back to the presets up/downloader for my KRT2 airband
transceiver...


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