Forrest Mims wrote a lot of tutorial articles and pamphlets for beginners in the old electronic magazines and for Radio Shack. I taught two separate groups of high school age homeschool kids electronics using the afore mentioned Electronics Learning Lab from Radio Shack with great success. The two books (Basic Electronics and Digital Electronics) that come in the kit are excellent and actually build your knowledge intuitively with each subsequent project. Other project lab kits from Radio Shack and elsewhere just show you how to breadboard circuits, but no theory.
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Forrest Mims wrote a lot of tutorial articles and pamphlets for beginners in the old electronic magazines and for Radio Shack. I taught two separate groups of high school age homeschool kids electronics using the afore mentioned Electronics Learning Lab from Radio Shack with great success. The two books (Basic Electronics and Digital Electronics) that come in the kit are excellent and actually build your knowledge intuitively with each subsequent project. Other project lab kits from Radio Shack and elsewhere just show you how to breadboard circuits, but no theory.