Structure and Interpretation of Signals and Systems 1st Edition by Edward A. Lee (PDF)

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This book provides an accessible introduction to signals and systems by beginning with an early introduction to cound and image applications, as opposed to circuits, that motivate readers to learn the theory. The book is accompanied by a robust website with detailed notes and illustrative applets for most every topic. An accessible introduction to the topic that assumes no background in circuits. Starts by presenting applications, which successfully motivates students learn the theory. An appropriate presentation for computer engineers and computer scientists students. Includes extensive web material for students and instructors with dynamic, illustrative applets for most topics. Incorporates lab material that ties the theory of the text into real-world applications of signals and systems. Based on many years of successful class-testing at the authors’ university. This book is designed for students taking an introductory signals and systems course, as well as engineers looking for a fresh coverage of this important topic.

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Editorial Reviews: From the Back Cover This book provides an accessible introduction to signals and systems by beginning with an early introduction to cound and image applications, as opposed to circuits, that motivate readers to learn the theory. The book is accompanied by a robust website with detailed notes and illustrative applets for most every topic. An accessible introduction to the topic that assumes no background in circuits. Starts by presenting applications, which successfully motivates students learn the theory. An appropriate presentation for computer engineers and computer scientists students. Includes extensive web material for students and instructors with dynamic, illustrative applets for most topics. Incorporates lab material that ties the theory of the text into real-world applications of signals and systems. Based on many years of successful class-testing at the authors’ university. This book is designed for students taking an introductory signals and systems course, as well as engineers looking for a fresh coverage of this important topic. About the Author Edward A. Lee is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at U.C. Berkeley. His research interests center on design, modeling, and simulation of embedded, real-time computational systems. He is the Director of the Ptolemy project. He is the co-author of four books and numerous papers. His bachelor’s degree (B.S.) is from Yale University (1979), his masters (S.M.) from MIT (1981), and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley (1986). From 1979 to 1982 he was a member of the technical staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, in the Advanced Data Communications Laboratory. He is a founder of BDTI, Inc., where he is currently a Senior Technical Advisor, and has consulted for a number of other companies. He is a fellow of the IEEE, was a NSF Presidential Young Investigator, and won the 1997 Frederick Emmons Terman Award for Engineering Education.Pravin Varaiya is the James Fife Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of Califonia PATH, a multi-university program of research in Intelligent Transportation Systems. From 1975 to 1992 he also was Professor of Economics at Berkeley. He has taught at MIT and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories during 1962-63. Dr. Varaiya has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Miller Research Professorship. He is a Fellow of IEEE. His areas of research are communication networks, transportation systems, and electric power systems. He has published more than 200 papers in technical journals. He is on the editorial board of Transportation Research Part C; Discrete Event Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications; Journal of Economic Dynamics &Control; Birkhauser series on Progress in Systems and Control Theory.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐It’s a gift for my Brother, but I’m sure he’ll enjoy it.

⭐I used this book in my undergraduate S&S class. We used both the book and the labs that go along with it. While the labs were decent, the book was almost one of the most frustrating “technical” books I have ever read. For example, the handling of the ABCD matrix form and subsequent segway into the Impulse Response was horrible (chapter 5).It leaves out key points when describing ideas. You simply cannot follow along with some of the concepts presented when explanations are incomplete. One of the most annoying things about the book is that key points, that you must understand to get any further, are “left as an exercise for the reader”. In addition, the book makes points by saying “Its completely obvious…” or “It can be easily shown that…” and then not really explaining anything because, apparently, the solution is so obvious.Compounding the problem(s) is that the worked problems in the book are not fully worked. They work a little bit of it, and then explain away the rest of the solution with a sentence (or two). So if your the least bit confused there is no way find out what it is you really dont understand. This might be excusable if the chapter problems had some answers in the back of the book, or in a supplemental manual, but that is not the case.I would think that, for someone who already understands the material, this book would seem quite nice. But to somebody who is new to the material, this book is an absolute nightmare. To any would-be teachers reading this and considering using it, beware, your students will have a horrible time with this book and will not understand what they need to in an introductory course, and they will hate you to boot.I feel quite bad for the CE/EE students at Berkeley as Im sure they always get stuck with this book.

⭐I took a class that used this textbook. The class proved to be frustrating beyond belief.To me the best introductory textbooks lay a foundation of information to understand the material. This book does not do that well at all. Instead of concrete the texts uses playing cards. Because of this the reader has to fill in the gaps and pray the house does not fall down. Not a good method in my opinion.Now for some one who has the required knowledge to use this book well, they would have a much easier time using this book since it mainly seems to teach from problems. Unfortunately even the more advanced people might have some difficulty since the text uses new notation that is not explained in length. There is no practice for understanding the notation. The reader has to fill in the gaps again.Looking at the book again later there is a companion web site that I did not use. Funny that I never saw that, but the text did not do a good job pointing important things out to the reader. One thing I noticed though is the text gives the impression that there is a lot more explanations online at the companion site. If that is true though, why did I pay for that book in the first place when I could of just used the site? Also, I wanted the book to explain the introductory course. A book is always a much better quick reference than a site that might not always be up, or accessible. That is my preference though.This is all why I cannot recommend this book, especially for the new student. I don’t want their introduction to this interesting area to be on the poor side like mine was.

⭐I had the luxury of taking this course when it was taught by one of the authors, and I still found the book extremely difficult. Some of the concepts of the book are certainly captivating as it teaches you stuff ranging from sound manipulation to how graphics programs manipulate images, but the material is condensed and extremely hard to pick up. There were moments where I had to re-read chapters three or four times just to get a basic understanding of what is going on. Many of the sections simply throw mathematical equations at you and skip a lot of the fundamental steps when deriving theorems or making connections. I ended up finishing the course with only a superficial understanding of the material because some of the content was extremely hard to understand. If you buy this book, be prepared to spend a good amount of time re-reading a lot of the chapters. IMHO, this is not the ideal book for an introductory Signals course – it is far too complex.

⭐When reading this book I felt a strange suspicion that the authors intent was to confuse the student by withholding greatly needed details needed to explain this topic. This book is written in such a convoluted way that seems to be more aimed at readers who buy “Be and Expert in 24 Hours!” books.Even more, I had to use this book while taking the corresponding class taught by one of the authors. I does not help the student a bit to read the book, be confused and then go to lecture only to have the professor/author regurgitate the same material with same examples!This is the first time I’ve ever written an online review, I felt compelled to steer people away from this book!

⭐This book is beyond bad. The notation is by far the worst. I have never seen such a messy way of describing domains and ranges or signals as what is used in this book. It honestly doesn’t even make sense to me or anyone else I know that’s seen this book.The examples are impossible to follow due to the notation that is used and it simply adds more frustration to anyone trying to learn signals and systems. I guess you can tell my main problem is with this ridiculous notation but the book also just fails to be a learning tool. Most of the time you spend trying to figure out what the author was trying to say rather than learning about signals and systems.If you’re a student and this book is required for your class, try to do without it and find something else, because this book sure won’t help.

⭐Notation is quite complicated, so it can be quite difficult to follow.I purchased this book for a second year course, but I didnt use it too much.

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