Learn electronics by practice
I opened this thinking I was the target audience - a longtime developer who has always wanted to get into electronics. However, this first paragraph...> In order to present our paradigm in learning electronics, we can take an example of a full adder chip 
that enables binary addition. Let us use a top-down approach, and look at the datasheet of the TTL 
(Transistor-Transistor Logic) chip 7483. We will immediately notice that the chip performs the addition of 
two 4-bit binary words, A and B....and the associated diagram, just immediately left me feeling like I was standing in a room full of people who were smarter than me. Is this really where one starts while learning basic electronics?