Re: College EE Textbook Recommendations

Howdy Joerg,

Regarding your post:

"Even back when I was studying for my degree I didn't find college
textbooks particularly helpful to achieve a true understanding. What
really taught me radio and, to some extent, digital design was the
ARRL Handbook. Surprisingly cheap, too. Later it was The Art of
Electronics.
Then Ulrich Rhode's Communications Receivers etc. Eventually I worked
my way up to high level signal processing but that was after I had my
masters."

Thanks for the recommendations!

Admittedly, the fact that a book is/was used by some college somewhere
hardly guarantees its quality. For every Strunk's "The Elements of
Style" (just to pick a quality (former) college text book at random)
there are doubtlessly innumerable lousy text books. Still, even in the
EE field, there must be some quality, information packed books out
there. (This explains why I asked for recommendations, rather than
just buying used college books randomly.


"BTW, thanks for the hint about Purplus in the CAD group. Order came
in. I wish I could fire up the new DesignCAD right away but too
swamped with work right now."

Glad to have been of assistance with your 2D cad search. (Hint: one of
DesignCAD's advantages is its use of hot keys. Once you get the hang
of it, may drafting chores can be done without typing a
command/accessing a pull down menu. You might want to get the hang of
it. ;-)

Showing no greater wisdom than you did, I decided to follow my own
advice, too (always a mistake). I purchased a copy of ViaCAD 2D/3D
(www.keenzo.com) that I had mentioned on the other newsgroup. Again
like you, I haven't had the time to actually try the thing, but wow!
Of the $84 bucks I paid, I think a good quarter of it went into the
packaging (my box -- incredibly, they sell the exact same program in
two different boxes! -- consists of a full color, embossed cardboard
box with a full color cardboard multi-page pamphlet making up its
front). The (still untried) program actually seems to consist of two
equal or more expensive CAD programs (Concepts 2D & 3D,
www.csi-concepts.com) combined into one. Despite its main feature
being its sophisticated 3D editing and unmatched (in its price class)
file import/export facilities, the origami box advertises the software
as being useful for, among other things, "School Projects" and
"Flowcharts"!?!

Questions:
a) Am I really the last living sane person left?
b) Heaven knows, I'm no (financial or otherwise) genius, but is
selling more for less really the way to become wealthy?


Cordially,
Richard Kanarek

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