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A Pragmatic Introduction to Signal Processing

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One other book that is worth checking out: http://www.sp4comm.org/

The book also has an accompanying active MOOC on Coursera platform.

I recommend Prandoni & Vetterli's coursera class on Signal processing[1]. They have really made an effort to teach this in an intuitive manner instead of just throwing equations at you. This was the course where I finally really understood Fourier transforms in a visual way.

The other course I recommend is the Audio Signal processing class by Xavier Serra[2] This is a practical class with lots of hands on programming examples and introduction to useful open-source software tools.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/dsp [2] https://www.coursera.org/learn/audio-signal-processing

I wish there were more books written on signal processing with computer science students in mind. Only one I found was Jonathan Y Stein.

Nice write-up. The pragmatic title is certainly accurate.

From first principles my favorite is Oppenheim / Schafer's 1989 version of 'Discrete-Time Signal Processing'. Its falling apart from all the use over the years.

That’s like the gold standard when it comes to the theory, though I like Richard Lyons book better, as it shows many tricks. Most DSP guys have a bag (trash bag sized) full of tricks.

My goto book on SP as well. It was the text book in a SP class for my MSEE and it's been on my bookshelf since.

the green-tea-press book called 'think dsp', available here: http://greenteapress.com/thinkdsp/thinkdsp.pdf is also pretty good introduction on the topic. but, as others have remarked, nothing beats oppenheim's seminal text 'Discrete-Time Signal Processing'

Off topic: If anyone is interested in SP and is looking for a side gig doing just that with an evolving technology, please pm me.

Is the address in your profile up to date? I'm getting bounces.

Sorry - just fixed it.

The book reads like a story....I am sure this will serve as a great read for young engineers -- very well done!!!!

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There should be a medal for sites like this!

Rewriting the pdf content in a latex has to be on someone's todo list

ignore the 'a' before latex

You can edit the comment for I think 20 minutes after creation. Click on the timestamp to view the Edit link.

Will remember that, thanks!

I didn’t know what you meant until I clicked on the PDF. The readability score has nothing to do with readability.

Wow. Literally a wall of text.

There is no need for latex, it's not like open office can't output readable documents.

Increasing the spacing between lines in these huge chunks of text to 1.5 would be a good start.

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