Re: What's the Toughest Branch in Electronics?

John Larkin <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:o82be3ttcnvrm8dah5nap2jgmqt4m6nua1@xxxxxxx:

It's just a definition, but I'd suggest that if the work doesn't
involve working with electricity (which programming doesn't) than it's
not "electronics." Programmers don't have to understand anything about
electrons or fields or things like that, and often don't.

John

It involves working with the hardware though.

Sometimes software can make the hardware easier (read cheaper) to build.

For microcontrollers and embedded systems, the software engineer needs to
know about the hardware system to write their code, for the most part.
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