What kind of cs degree did you get where you learned about electrical circuits. The closest to hardware I've learned is logic circuit diagrams and verilog.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I mean, I graduated over 20 years ago now, but I had to take a number of EE courses for my CS major. Guess that isn't a thing now, or in a lot of places? Just assumed some level of EE knowledge was required for a CS degree this whole time.

[–] PraiseTheSoup@midwest.social 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I got my BS in CSci about 15 years ago and it was 100% about programming in java. We didn't learn a fucking thing about hardware and my roommate was an EE major and we had none of the same classes except for calculus.

By the time I graduated java was basically dead. Thanks state college.

[–] Lehmanator@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

My CS program had virtually no programming outside a couple of courses where C was used to implement concepts. Had one applications type course where mostly Java was used.

CS is and should be a specialized math curriculum IMO. Teaching specific programming languages is time that would be better spent teaching theory that can't be taught by dev docs or code bootcamps, as exemplified by your anecdote. Unfortunately nowadays people tend to see degrees as glorified job training programs.

[–] TrumpetX@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

Java isn't dead, though

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, EE and CS had a lot of cross over where I went. At least in undergrad, grad school saw them diverge a lot more, but they still never disentangled, parts of each were important to both. Hell we had stuff like A+ labs, and shit.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

In my uni they kinda just teach java. There is one mandatory class that's in C and one that's in mips assembly tho.

Everyone used AI when I took those classes. By the end of the year they were still having trouble on groupchat with syntax stuff.

[–] wieson@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

I learned about transistors in Informatics class in highschool. Everything from the bottom up, from the material that makes a transistor possible to basic logic circuits sr flip flops, and, or, xor, addition, to the von-neumann-architecture, a basic microprocessor and machine code and assembly.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

In my own uni's coursework the closest we get are some labs where students breadboard some simple adder circuits, which we do just to save them from embarassing gaps in their knowledge (like happened in the inital comment). It doesn't add much beyond a slightly better understanding of how things can be implemented, if we're being honest.

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works -4 points 3 days ago

I don't have a degree