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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
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Subject: Re: Re: educational toys that inspired you...
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Date: Sun, 19-Jan-86 01:29:04 EST
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>      As a practicing electrical engineer today, though, I can state that
> my early electronics self-education has both very good and very bad
> points.  Learning to build amplifiers creatively rather than analytically
> (let's just take the class "A" bipolar case here) serves one's purposes
> well when you are 12 or so, but when you do it for a living, it is very
> easy to succumb to the temptation to tweak your circuits rather than 
> do the correct operating point and stability analyses, etc.

	I have the same problem.  On the other hand, "playing" with electronics
at an early age gave me an innate FEELING for what will and will not work -
this is something that is really quite valuable and is not easily derived
from just a formal engineering education.

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