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They used to. CS 1st year used to include constructing circuits from base gates and driving hex LED displays, simple calculator, Carnot maps, flow diagrams, stu
by ggm 2y ago
They used to. CS 1st year used to include constructing circuits from base gates and driving hex LED displays, simple calculator, Carnot maps, flow diagrams, stuff which goes strongly to boolean logic and gates. Plus machine code, and one higher level language.
I think now there is a stronger tendency to partition the space into hard ware and soft ware and so the hard ware courses are electrical engineering not computer science, and the computer scientists are taught an ideal machine abstraction.
- fragmede 2y agomy degree is in computer engineering, which was half a CS degree and half a EE degree, but the operating systems class was in the CS side if iirc. The low level class was on the EE side.
- ggm 2y agoit's not a bad model. I went to a uni with no engineering school (it was one of the expansion red-brick uni's of the 1950s in the UK, it took until the 1990s for them to "grow up" and get engineering, medical and other schools attached) and so this wasn't an option. If I'd gone to Leeds uni 40 miles away they were doing Meade-Conway student LSI with very low yield but none the less, the students got to debug chips they'd made from traces in Magic and other design tools. My mind was officially blown (I worked there in computing support after I graduated)
- Two4 2y agoDo you mean Karnaugh maps?