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EE201 Electronic Circuits

Iowa State University

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EE201 Electronic Circuits is an Iowa State University undergraduate course whose online topic list covers the core of introductory electronic circuit analysis. Commenters point to its lecture-note materials as a reference for the subject.

Commenters point to it as a useful college-level outline of the important topics for someone learning electronics, though they note its lecture notes are not written as a standalone tutorial.

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  1. Recommendskayson2020in “Bad Circuit Design”

    For a practical understanding of electronics, there's no need to go so far deep into the theory that you'd get "lost in all the electrons". I really like HyperPhysics for the basic, basic theory - http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/emcon.html#emcon I would go through the Circuit Elements tree first, then the Electric Circuits. If you want to go further, there are tons of college courses with lecture notes available online. You're probably looking for something like an EE201/Electronic Circuits. Here's one I found that seemed to have all the important topics: http://tuttle.merc.iastate.edu/ee201/topics.htm Unfortunately, sometimes the lecture notes are hard to understand since they're not meant to be a standalone tutorial. You may also check MIT or Stanford for their free course versions, which probably have the entire lecture.

    From there, to be honest, I'm not sure what to suggest. One thing I usually recommend to people interested in electronics is to pick up a breadboard kit/tutorial like one by Elegoo on Amazon. It's slightly more programming focused, but it covers a lot of other circuit topics and it's a great way to get started with experimentation. I find that being able to actually produce something as you're learning makes it a lot more engaging.

    Art of Digital design is a 2nd or 3rd year college level textbook so you might be missing some context there. I would say if you want to go further, look into a transistor-level circuit course (which I took after EE201). That covered both analog and digital transistor circuits, which supported the digital design class I was taking at the same time.

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