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Summary: Wonderful Book! Both for study and reference
Review: Sounds very funny. All the American readers gave this book high evaluation but the only Canadian reader gave a poor evaluation even this book were written by Canadian professors. As for me, a person who had done graduate studies in US but now moved to Canada may also give an evaluation. I think this is REALLY a wonderful book. When I was a student in Arizona, I studied this book and many stuffs had actually helped me during my job interviews both in states and Canada and helped me get multiple offers! Now I've already been a professional engineer and still feel this is a very good reference book. It should be a "Bible" for all the EE students and engineers, I think.
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Summary: Well worth the money ( '_' )
Review: One of my favorite electronics textbooks. Used it for my junior year in Electrical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. If someone told me "You can only own ONE Electronics textbook!", this would be the one. Gray, Meyer's would be a very close second, though.
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Summary: excellent reference
Review: An excellent mid-level reference book. Strongly recommend for any student of electronics. Excellent intro of device physics & spice.
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Summary: Just teach you the equation
Review: This is not a good book to learn microelectronic.This is because it just teach you many equation and hope u can remember it. I am a university student and i don't think that if i remember the whole thing, i can do all the question. What i want is the method to do it !
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Summary: A great introductory text.
Review: A well written, easy to understand text. If it weren't for Sedra & Smith I wouldn't have understood anything about electronics as I certainly didn't learn anything from my professors. As it were, electronics were some of my favourite courses in university.
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Summary: Bad learning book
Review: This is a very poor teaching book. The author fails miserably in trying to give the first timer a solid picture of what is happening. Feels more like blob of jello. I think that this book should not be used as an intro textbook. Its also wasting my strength to carry it to class.
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Summary: Examples?...
Review: It just doesn't have enough examples... examples are needed to learn the subject.
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Summary: A quintessential text for aspiring engineers
Review: I should start by saying that I'm not an electrical engineer - I'm a chemical engineer by schooling and only dabble in electrical design for fun, or to tackle problems I have to solve. That said, this book is my number one shelf reference for fundaments of analog design. Sedra and Smith lay groundwork for more advanced texts, present clear, efficient examples, and give just enough text to keep the problems moving.This is an engineering text, tried and true, and I've not had any difficulty working the problems in the chapter ends after reading through the text and examples. Maybe my engineering background was better than most of the other readers, but Sedra and Smith seemed to do a fine job in getting me the information I needed to get the job done. Mine's getting worn enough I may have to buy a new copy...
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Summary: US Engineering Student
Review: Regardless of the simple fact that Canadian students learn it faster because Canada's such a great engineering country....We learn the material in this book over 3 semesters and even then we don't cover the whole book. So I don't think pace is the problem. That said, I agree with others who wrote that this book leaves much to be desired, espcially for the student who wishes to learn for the first time. The examples are too simple and are not even explained at times. Sometimes they just give the question and the answer with no written solution. This is no different than end of chapter problems with the answers in the appendix. When they do give examples, often times they skip all the intermediate steps and jump right to the final equation. This book might be good if you have an understanding of the subject to start with and are just reading the book for the conceptual material. But forget it if you want to learn step by step problem solving without the constant help of an instructor to fill in the missing pieces.
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Summary: Marginal quality
Review: I was excited with this book. Some people told me it's a classic microelectronics textbook, yet I found a glaring deficiency in this book - the lack of in depth explanation and examples. The text material is clear and pretty fun read, but it gives a false sense of security that you understand the subject. And when the homework problems tell you that you don't fully understand the topic, the text does not help much in further understanding. I feel like the book is laughing at me now (you don't understand the concept, and I won't explain it to you, hahaha!). Bad book with an attitude problem! =)
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