I'm really interested in the topic of basic electronics. I've got a CS degree but from a university where CS came from the mathematical school, rather than the

I'm really interested in the topic of basic electronics. I've got a CS degree but from a university where CS came from the mathematical school, rather than the engineering school. Hence in four years, there was only one (optional) class where a computer was used, all other lectures where theorems and proofs with pen and paper. But I would really love to be able to tinker with circuits, not necessarily with logic circuits, but being able to get some motors to do something useful or - more likely - fun has been something I've always wanted to learn. Mind you, it wasn't at the top of cool things I'm interested in, so I never really made too much of an effort. But that was also partly because I found it surprisingly difficult to find good resources to get started. Compared to say, programming, or other CS topics. I'm sure this is partly because as a complete novice, it's already challenging to even assess what would constitute a good resource and what not. But I've just always failed to find a book or course that was at the right level of complexity (for me) and caught my interest sufficiently to actually stick to the topic. Either it's quickly over my head or it's something like 45 minutes of youtube videos just to get to Ohm's law, or so. Eventually, I discovered some (older) books from the model train community that I bought for next to nothing from ebay. Those are quite okay, I like that they are quite practical in that they refer to actual electronic parts with the names/IDs that you can go out and buy. The downside, again, is that they're quite light on the theory - the kind of writing that tries very hard not to alienate the reader and thus doesn't dare to properly explain anything of more than trivial complexity. Therefore, if anyone has any good recommendations for books, courses, videos, or other resources that you have found useful and that are tailored to beginners but dare to confront them with the full monty and not just some hand-wavy watered-down version of things AND (ideally) are hands-on so that when you're done, you'd be able to order some parts and be able to actually put something together, I'd very much appreciate some hints. (Is that wish list simply too long?)