Dirk Gently said the following on 05/13/2012 05:04 PM:
CS profs seem to be in la-la land. But all of my EE profs did teach "real world" programming.
Just so. I took a course that would be classified as EE in the USA but was simply "Electronics". The people doing what you might think of as "CS" were doing "Cybernetics". There wasn't a lot of difference because most of the profs in the computing department were heavily involved with the hardware and doing "Control Systems" and other practical work rather than abstract things and the profs in "Electronics" were doing things that needed computers to analyse the data on control stuff in the lab. I got involved in a microprogrammed bit slice thngie that was to do gigahertz FFT samples from a radio telescope using 1MHz TTL as a front end for was eventually was a PDP-11 when funding arrived. -- Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org