Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ian Collins Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: EE or CS? Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:19:46 +1300 Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <4f2b11b3-c551-4901-90bb-c4228a89fbd3@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net WnqZSmkti3SDK9o4fBEd8gZ7BVMtxziRnCL4M6gqYkGFhVBjNBspiAoYfPq0dGDACR Cancel-Lock: sha1:yObH2aD1NDiDZxKe8zjq5ca6ptU= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; SunOS i86pc; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 In-Reply-To: <4f2b11b3-c551-4901-90bb-c4228a89fbd3@googlegroups.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:2765 bob wrote: > Why is it that computer programmers are usually bad at electrical > engineering and vice versa? > > Or is this just a myth? I can't speak for electrical engineers (I do know one who excels at IT infrastructure planning, but no programmers), but a good number of my colleagues have followed my path from electronic engineering into programming. The disciplines of engineering are good training for software development. -- Ian Collins