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I should have loved electrical engineering

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157 points tdhttt | 1 comments | 01 Sep 25 09:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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1970-01-01 ◴[04 Sep 25 11:29 UTC] No.45126064[source]▶
TL;DR author discovers there is little overlap between EE and CS.

Hardware and software are called different things for a reason? I do agree that tinkering with the hardware always needs to be in-step with the lesson at hand. You can't just state KVL/KCL and move-on, you need to have the student build a circuit and play with it for a day or two.

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1. mynameajeff ◴[04 Sep 25 12:36 UTC] No.45126540[source]▶
The build part was really helpful for me when I really struggled with EE. My program only ever made us build things for very first semester "build a circuit to light up the LED" type labs. Once we got to even the most basic of components it all became on paper. I really struggled with some of the mental models to the point where I made a habit of going out of my way to build a lot of circuits that I was just supposed to solve on paper. Getting everything correct felt no different to getting things completely wrong in a paper problem until I actually built out the circuits and suddenly "correctness" actually became a real thing that I was tangibly experiencing. I wish my program would've at least taught SPICE a little more to at least scratch the ability to simulate things a little better.