Signals and Systems (2nd Edition)

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Summary: Better examples would help
Review: The text itself was fairly easy to follow in most parts. The examples are trivial and offer no help in solving the absurd chapter problems.

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Summary: The best in signal analysis
Review: These guys are god! This is the best signals book

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Summary: Not good
Review: This book assumes too much of the reader. Describing steps in problem solving with the terms "by inspection and "clearly" do not help. This made the examples poor and the text useless.

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Summary: The right book
Review: This book give you much than you need to understand the concepts as well as objective problems and advanced problems in the end of every chapter.
My advise: if you do care about your GPA more than you to understand concepts you may see other texts more helpful in this area and you can even get just the sheets of this book,otherwise this book will make you (as an undergraduate student) understand all the concept to start in DSP and comm.theories.

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Summary: Hey other professors- don't knock me
Review: This book is extremely difficult material for undergrad students to comprehend- if a professor can't realize that another career is in order. Like many college texts this one seems to be written for other profs to read as opposed to beginning engineering students to learn the material. If your prof isn't extremely strong this book won't help! I am going to give Lathi's book a go....

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Summary: An Asset ??!!
Review: This book is okay when it concepts , but when it comes to problem solving techniques , it becomes a cropper . It is one of the worst books prescribed for an Under Graduate student . I am pretty sure , half the lecturers don't understand it's contents completely . And the examples this book provides is by no means an asset to it . Come to think of it , one thing is sure . Either the author seems to have had a complete lack of direction while writing this book , or , keeping an eye on the trade , he must have not given answers or worked out solutions to any of the problems within the book . On the whole , an utter waste of time and money .

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Summary: A wordy, indecisive attempt at describing the topic.
Review: This book is required reading for Purdue University's EE301 class. The author assumes that we have already taken multipal signals and systems classes and that we already know how to do many of the "tricks" he knows. However, the majority of the time, he fails to mention which trick he is using, or clearly show how to work the problem in an orderly fashion.

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Summary: Very bad text book!
Review: This book may be good if one is already familiar with the subject, but very difficult to learn from. The example in the text cover only very basic problems, and still manage to be hard to understand. The problems from the end of the chapters are of far greater complexity than any of the examples worked within the chapter. BAD, BAD, BAD...

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Summary: Terrible teaching tool for the uninitiated!
Review: This book presents complex subject matter in extremely complex engineeringese (contrary to English). There is little attention paid to establishing a base of reference on which to build. The author assumes the reader has fluent knowledge of complex mathematics and wastes no time or space in an attempt to explain his assumptions or algebraic leaps to the "most simplified form." The practice problems are virtually impossible to solve and bear slight or no resemblence to the grossly inadequate examples. All in all a very frustrating book.

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Summary: The signals and systems ultimate reference
Review: This is an excellent for book for elementary signals and systems analysis for undergrad. electrical engineering students. It has all the concepts written and explained out clearly and it contains a huge collection of problems. Yet, since this is a subject students encounter quite early in their course, it should have more complex worked out examples. This is a great book for both continuous and discrete signals and systems analysis and design with a methodical approach to real wourld problems. I recommend it for all ECE students.