Greetings,
I am from the USA and in my third semester course of Power Engineering and Renewable Energy in south-west Germany. I'm interested to expand my practical knowledge and abilities in electronics. =)
I will be honest, that even though I have already done a few semesters of engineering, my interest for electronics is quite new. I realize that I am someone studying Power Engineering (besically electrical engineering), but I was and am (more consciously now so) one of these ignorant newbs that came into an engineering class for the reasons like high math grades, general interest in engineering, programming, renewable energy, changing the word, working behind the scenes, etc. But there was not really much of an interest in the finer details of electrical engineering until I would say this year and my digital technlogy course and this kind of link between digital and analog electronics. Now I am motivated to uncover more of this great big ocean of electronics and I seem to be in a good place to go after this interest. I feel however that I need some more understanidng in general, though my labs this semester have helps a bit, but I want to be better than the average person in the tech labs…
So the biggest question in my mind is, outside of my engineering program, how do I learn electronics? Should I actually just try to do well in my classes exculsively and try to understand these courses well? Or are there books, materials that can make both my future semesters and an interest in electronics easier to excell in?
I mean, I already have many pdfs, some of which I am starting to print out, just for personal preference. I have actually quite a library. Some of the books I have gotten from links on this forum.
Oh yeah, And another question, though it may sound completely strange, it doesn't really make sense with regards to electronics, but does anyone know of good audio (beginner) lectures on any of these subjects related to electronics? I find this easier and I could listen to these lectures during idle moments, conventient.
Thanks for maintaining such a nice community it seems! =)