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> As an educator I can tell you that there are, as Syd mentions, some
> very basic (and fairly eternal and broadly applicable) ideas that are
> not well covered anywhere. Oh, there are plenty of sites and texts
> that will tell you what an RC time constant is or what input and
> output impedances are, for example, but what is really lacking are
> insights that only practitioners like yourselves can shed light on.
> That is the real problem, how to express practical insight that is
> also broad and far reaching. Another way to look at it is as I
> alluded to in my previous note, "What is really important and
> essential for someone who would like to follow along most of the
> discussions on the forum?" I realize that such knowledge is only half
> the challenge, but the other half as I see it is having enough
> interest to look up the application specific details of what chip does
> what and so on. But that latter half is also the easy part in my
> opinion. Getting a good feel for discerning the true issues
> underlying a problem is the hard part. You guys are good at this.
> And I've been reading the forum for (how long has it been?... 8
> years?) quite a while now and as far as I can tell those essentials
> have not changed a lick.
>
> I suppose that this question is a specific example of a much larger
> and daunting problem ... how to convey experience? Is it possible?
It depends. General rules and 'seat of the pants' stuff would be easily
passed on, if there was a certain level of competence on the receiving
end. These usually are not sought, because people don't realise they
need them.
Experience is a mix of learned behaviours and techniques built on a
bedrock of theory, memory, law, and design techniques. You can't build
it in people who don't have the foundation. What you can do is automate
it for any specific instance, which is what workshop manuals do.
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With best Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
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