How did I start out or how to start out? This is for the Newbies on the forum.

Why am I qualified to speak on how to start out. I graduated from the school-of-hard-knocks. I am now working on an advanced degree from the same place. I built my first computing machine in the third grade in 1967. From my 18 year I am paid well to design electronics. I tough myself this industry.
I started out with Radio Electronics and Popular Electronics magazines along with all the Ham Radio magazines. Later Byte magazine came out. I built a project from the magazines every month, then modified it. Those magazines are gone and Ham Radio is nothing now. Get these magazines below. Read every article. Search the web. Buy kits! Take night classes. Read data sheets. Buy books. Experiment, try again, build, build, build and never give up. Use every forum. Ask questions. Get a development board and program it. Don’t let an old goat with 10 or 20 years experience put you down. Get up and find another way.

What drives the old goats creasy is then Newbies do not read the manual. Many Newbies want the answer given to them when a little digging will solve the problem.

Now for the old goats like me; think back to when some one said to you “this is a resistor”, “that is an OR gate” or “For-next-loop”. I have been passing out too much help on the forums. From now on I will try to give out the tools to find answers, and less answers. Lets all take a Newbie under our wing in memory of those who helped us.
Very simple. http://www.nutsvolts.com/
Very complex. http://www.circuitcellar.com
Simple. http://www.epemag.wimborne.co.uk/