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From: smithj@hpsad.HP.COM (Jim Smith)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Hobby
Message-ID: <1840029@hpsad.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Jan 91 05:25:19 GMT
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Sorry about the reposting..

Quick answer:
easy, fun construction projects: look for books by Forrest Mims and
also books published by Howard Sams or TAB.  Some Mims books are at 
Radio Shack, also look in electronics stores.

Magazines:
Popular Electronics
Radio-Electronics (a little more advanced)
hands-on Electronics (very basic - or was this incorporated into one of the
                       others?)

For Digital, you may want to check out the TTL handbook and the CMOS
handbook, both by Don Lancaster.

For solid electronics info, try 'The Art of Electronics' by ..Hill?
                                                              Horowitz?

There used to be a mag called "elementary electronics," that was very
basic, but I fear it is no more.

My advice:  Subscribe to 'Popular Electronics,' and buy some of the books
listed in mailorder in back.  Get a good electronics reference, like
'The Art of Electronics.'

An introductory course is also probably available at a local college...

Good luck!