Re: What's the Toughest Branch in Electronics?

On 9/11/07 1:18 PM, in article
no.spam-38062C.16170111092007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Al" <no.spam@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

In article <Xns99A86B032FE79wonkynillmailnil@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Gary Tait <classicsat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

Also don't programmers have to know about field, physics, mechanics and
the like when they write programs that map magnetic and electric fields
for various configurations? Don't they need to know about gravity fields
when they write programs for space craft navigation? Don't they need to
know math to solve math problems? etc, etc, etc

Al

No, they download all that from Wikepedia. Real Engineers do hardware.

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