Beautiful book with full color illustrations. ( )

A qui s'adresse ce livre?
- Aux électroniciens en herbe, amateurs, bricoleurs, bidouilleurs, geeks, étudiants, musiciens...
- A tous les makers qui souhatent découvrir l'électronique par la pratique.

I was hoping this would be a good resource for teaching an intro electronics class. At times it is quite good, but often it is only passable. If I didn't know electronics myself, my students would be gaining lots of "knowledge" but left with lots of questions and unable to apply what they had learned.

I find the author skips describing certain important things, covers other things that are not relevant at the time, occasionally uses the best approach for teaching, but more often is little better than a standard textbook.

On the whole, a great resource, but don't try to use it as your sole resource. ( )

A lot of useful ideas for beginners in electronics. Somewhat more intermediate hobbyists may find something in here for them as well, but probably not the more advanced types. ( )

Make: Electronics 2nd Edition by Charles Platt is simply the best book to learn basic electronic circuits and how they work. It is easy to understand and follow, hands on, and interesting. The author is easy to get in touch with, provides updates and answers questions if you need it. There are great electronic kits available from https://www.protechtrader.com that have all of the electronic components needed for the experiments in the book which makes it even more fun to follow along making each experiment in the book without having to hunt down the correct parts and wait for them to arrive. ( )