Schaum's Outline of Digital Signal Processing (Schaum's)

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Summary: This book was excellent
Review: ... of course that could be because my professor gave tests from some of the sample problems in here.. :) But the book was done very well, I thought. It was a great suppliment to our textbook, which was the Digital Signal Processing book written by Leland Jackson (that's Jackson's red book, rather than the infamous Jackson's blue book). The solved problems were very helpful.

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Summary: This is a good reference book
Review: I used this book in the DSP class in Georgia Tech. I think it is very useful and explains many complicated issues in plain theory. It uses a lot of examples which are difficult to find in the textbook, like the Oppenheim and Schafer, Discrete-Time Signal Processing.

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Summary: Must Be Great
Review: Most of us know what digital signal processing is all about
but not what it does or how to use it intuitively. I think this
book puts everything together in a more organized fashion to
allow us to intuitively flair the end product even before we
get there. I think that's what studying is all about, create room
for intuition in a system, and that's what is expected from this
book as well.

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Summary: Good Supplement to Oppenheim or Proakis (DSP book)
Review: This book is intended to serve as a supplement for an EE DSP course, which probably uses one of the texts listed above. If you want to self-study DSP I recommend the Steve Smith book (available in print or on his website) as a place to get started.
The best areas of Dr. Hayes' book are its treatement of sampling (better than John Proakis' book), z-transforms and DFT. I think the FFT treatment was okay and the filter design at the end was a little light, but that is okay since this is really intended for a first semester course. The main purpose of all the Schaum's books is to provide more worked out examples of tricky material and Hayes' book serves the purpose. One final thing, in the introduction, the author says to check out his website that has errata listed, but I typed the address in and got an "under construction" message.

Rating:
Summary: Good Supplement to Oppenheim or Proakis (DSP book)
Review: This book is intended to serve as a supplement for an EE DSP course, which probably uses one of the texts listed above. If you want to self-study DSP I recommend the Steve Smith book (available in print or on his website) as a place to get started.
The best areas of Dr. Hayes' book are its treatement of sampling (better than John Proakis' book), z-transforms and DFT. I think the FFT treatment was okay and the filter design at the end was a little light, but that is okay since this is really intended for a first semester course. The main purpose of all the Schaum's books is to provide more worked out examples of tricky material and Hayes' book serves the purpose. One final thing, in the introduction, the author says to check out his website that has errata listed, but I typed the address in and got an "under construction" message.

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Summary: Helpful only if you already know the material
Review: This book is of little help in learning the topic as a stand alone book. The examples are of little use, and most of the problems have no solution listed. Even when answers are given, the supporting work is missing, leaving you wonder how they arrived at their answer. Don't waste your time, or money on this book.

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Summary: Helpful only if you already know the material
Review: This book is probably very effective as a suppliment to a class or more formal textbook, but I would not suggest it as a basis for learning DSP. The material strikes me as relatively comprehensive, with only a few errors in the derivations of the solutions to the problems (the answers are, of course, correct). Worst is that there are a few sections in which a string of irrelevant (and sometimes erroneous) derivation takes the place of a solid mathematical development.

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Summary: Probably fine for suppliment or review; doesn't stand alone.
Review: This book is probably very effective as a suppliment to a class or more formal textbook, but I would not suggest it as a basis for learning DSP. The material strikes me as relatively comprehensive, with only a few errors in the derivations of the solutions to the problems (the answers are, of course, correct). Worst is that there are a few sections in which a string of irrelevant (and sometimes erroneous) derivation takes the place of a solid mathematical development.