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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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chrisco255 ◴[04 Sep 25 13:59 UTC] No.45127365[source]▶
In all of my EE or computer hardware classes at uni, we had weekly labs that required hands on building circuits. Often the labs were the most challenging part of the class. Is that not common?
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1. Eextra953 ◴[04 Sep 25 15:06 UTC] No.45128139[source]▶
I had the same experience, every EE class had a lab component even the intro ones. At my school, the labs for junior and senior classes were all scheduled 6PM to 10PM and almost all of them took that long or longer to complete.