Re: Newbie Question: Which tool(s) to use?

From: Fred Bloggs (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:28:55 GMT

Steven O. wrote:
> Hi, all. I'm a tech writer, and recently decided to learn more about
> electronics. Along the way I've picked up four or five textbooks,
> most of which came with various software -- some student versions,
> some trial versions, etc.
>
> I finally signed up for an actual course on introductory Digital
> Design, and we are using a book Digital Design by Morris Mano. The
> book comes with software from SynaptiCAD, but most of the stuff only
> runs in seriously crippled mode (no Saving, for instance);

Mano is probably the most widely used textbook at the introductory
level. Use the *simplified* cripple-ware that came with the book to work
the exercises and it will be good enough. Anything more specialized will
require that you spend more time struggling with bug-ridden and complex
  CAD than with the essential course material itself- and that would be
STUPID. Most competent people work through the entirety of Mano in a
week's time anyway.

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