Depends; because EE is a wide field. I know EE's who are mainly physicists and ones who are mainly programmers, for example. On my course, generally speaking,

Depends; because EE is a wide field. I know EE's who are mainly physicists and ones who are mainly programmers, for example. On my course, generally speaking, those of us interested in digital electronics were competent programmers. Ironically most of us were better than our CS peers (but only because cs at our Uni was not a great course) Don't forget their programming will have been taunt working on pics - so programs will tend to be terse and efficient (die to memory constraints) and employ lots of "hacks" (again due to memory/compiler constraints). Luckily I learned c before these habits :-p