Anton Aylward wrote:
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".
Depending on the course material it could be EE or it could be ET (Electrical Technology).
The people doing what you might think of as "CS" were doing "Cybernetics". There wasn't a lot of difference because most of
This was at Purdue -- the FIRST Computer Science department in the world.
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.
That's analog circuits stuff, and has nothing to do with the teaching of programming techniques as a discipline.
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.
Sounds fun. One of my projects writing a cycle-by-cycle simulator for some CPU circuitry passed out by the prof. Then we had the great fun(*) of writing microcode to implement the PDP-11 instruction set. (*) for varying values of "fun" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org