Quote of the week

Posted Aug 19, 2011 4:43 UTC (Fri) by speedster1 (guest, #8143)
In reply to: Quote of the week by dlang
Parent article: Quote of the week

At my university there was both a CS department and an ECE department, Electrical and Computer Engineering. ECE majors were required to take some core hardware classes (e.g. circuit theory and intro to solid state), but afterwards we could focus on computer engineering (computer architecture, UNIX/Linux, data structures, OS programming, computer vision...). Plenty of opportunities to learn programming.

Quote of the week

Posted Aug 25, 2011 22:16 UTC (Thu) by wtanksleyjr (subscriber, #74601) [Link]

That's exactly how UCSD was... But as a CS major, whenever the CS and ECE cohorts met in a single class it immediately became clear what sort of class it was -- if it was electronics, ECE would ace the grade curve; if it was programming, CS would. The fun part was when EEs would come in to a later part of a series in electronics and CRUSH both cohorts.

In summary... Unless you want to write device drivers, you'll probably be better challenged taking CS courses than ECE ones; your competition will be a lot more serious.

At least at UCSD.

Mixed majors are a different thing; but again, if you can get into the CS courses you'll get more of a programming challenge.

-Wm