The best Computer Hardware Control Systems books: Reddit reviews

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Control System Design Guide by George Ellis.

Amazon

Old version

This book perfectly bridges together the theory you learn in school with the practical design knowledge you need in the field. Note that it is mostly about process and motion control, not PLCs.

At least link to the most recent version?

https://www.amazon.com/Certified-Information-Systems-Control-Second-dp-1260473333/dp/1260473333/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

A new version of the Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control All-in-One Exam Guide, Second Edition 2nd Edition

by Peter Gregory (Author), Bobby Rogers (Author), Dawn Dunkerley (Author)

Here is a link to it on Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/Certified-Information-Systems-Control-Second/dp/1260473333/ref=sr_1_2?crid=31XGOHW1I36F4&keywords=crisc+all+in+one&qid=1647689975&sprefix=CRISC+All+in+one%2Caps%2C175&sr=8-2

Sorry I wasn't clearer in the previous post.

Hope this helps.

I can recommend the book below although I haven't read it entirely due to lack of time. It is oriented for practical engineers. I found that most tuning methods require you to know the variables of your system and most of the times you don't have access to them or they are not consistent

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0123859204/?coliid=I1XLPX6SEBZFEZ&colid=1ZJRTYKYRX85S&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Here’s a decent book I read a few months ago I really liked. It help me grasp how options work. I do a lot of paper trading for practice. It’s something I might entertain as a strategy when I retire off my TSLA shares. I’m still unsure how I plan to do it exactly, but it’s an idea I like to entertain.

Covered Calls for Beginners: A Risk-Free Way to Collect "Rental Income" Every Single Month on Stocks You Already Own (Options Trading for Beginners) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LJQDQ2C/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_Y6XZ8AKCH75BYDEXCRQN

Thank you! I I really enjoyed CL Recipes (highly highly recommended), and I might as well buy PCL given I have read it enough

Other good candidates:

https://www.amazon.com/Common-Lisp-Condition-System-Mechanisms/dp/148426133X

https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Algorithms-Lisp-Efficient-Programs/dp/1484264274

I could advise you buy the buy this book:

Covered Calls for Beginners: A Risk-Free Way to Collect "Rental Income" Every Single Month on Stocks You Already Own

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I just read Covered Calls for Beginners (Kindle Unlimited) and thought it laid out the topic pretty well. It's only one part of the equation but maybe you are looking for information on covered calls as well.

Common Lisp features not implemented in Emacs Lisp:

• Packages
• CLOS
• Conditions and Restarts (the link is to Phoe's excellent book)
• Streams (like file objects in most mainstream languages.)
• Bignums and arbitrary-precision rational numbers are built into CL. (/ 1 2) = 1/2 in Common Lisp, but 0 in Emacs Lisp.
• The most popular Common Lisp implementations compile down to machine language and code can be optimized to run nearly as fast as C.
• Most CL implementations provide a foreign function interface, allowing you to call C functions from Lisp. You can also define Lisp callbacks to be called by C code. The CFFI library provides a uniform interface across several implementations.
• Most CL implementations do static analysis when loading function definitions. If you pay attention to the warnings, you can catch type errors, undefined variables, and other issues at compile time. If you ignore these warnings, the errors will happen at runtime as well. Static type declarations are supported and will improve both the quality of the type errors and the speed of the compiled machine code.
• M-. in SLIME mode can find any function that has been loaded by the attached Lisp process. The function locations are queried from the Lisp process, which collects this information as part of the aforementioned static analysis. Contrast with Emacs Lisp, where M-. relies on a TAGS file that is only updated when you run etags from the command line and then reload the new TAGS file in Emacs.
• SLIME also has a "who-calls" feature which finds all the functions that call a given function. It also relies on the Lisp implementation's static analysis.

The above list is not exhaustive.

> The software manages how the electric motor works, and they are ahead in optimizing that.

If you believe that, you don't know much about electric motors or software.

There's nothing mysterious about controlling electric motors or any other systems, we learn that in engineering college courses, it's all in the standard textbooks.

Tesla is way ahead of everyone else in marketing electric cars, that's all.

Control System Design Guide by Ellis is a must have. He is very skilled at explaining in an intuitive way.

This is what i used whan i started monkeying around with it

Now, I will say that I have gotten the new edition of a book cheaper than the used. You can see how close the prices are here, but also note that I'm not looking at the "official" new book, and that my school has set up a pretty awesome way of buying their books. We've started this project where we can look at all of the notes online on the project website, or buy a bound copy in the bookstore for around $20-$30. Since these are science and engineering textbooks, I'm pretty confident that I'm not being overcharged by that much.

That said, that's the only book I've found that's an exception, and a lot of what you're saying is very true.