TMOLI 42 - Slashdot User

Where Are Tomorrow's Embedded Developers? 245

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 12, 2008 @05:31PM from the not-like-embedded-reporters dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a similar vein to the previous discussion about the New York professors taking Java to task for damaging Computer Science education, Mike Anderson of the PTR group wonders why it's so hard to find good embedded developers these days. 'As for today's CS programs, it seems that long gone are the computer architecture classes, writing code in assembly language (or even C at this point) and engineering software economics. In fact, a large number of CS majors apparently believe that everything can be implemented in a virtual machine and that both memory and [CPU] cycles are infinite.'"

Comment Re:A layer of abstraction (Score 1) 79

by TMOLI 42 on Tuesday July 26, 2005 @01:22AM (#13162844) Attached to: Software Engineering vs. Systems Engineering?

From my experience working as a co-op at a defense contractor, Systems Engineering is not well applied to software development, as in they have very little in common. As a software developer there, the main interface to Systems Engineering is the project schedule. Most Systems Engineers have no programming experience (and my work seems to prefer it that way), so we end up with people telling us how long it will take to do something even though they have no reasonable basis for estimate. One wonders why projects end up over budget.

Journal Journal: Thinking about people

Journal by TMOLI 42 on Sunday August 31, 2003 @11:38AM

Blogs are an amazing thing. I think you get to learn so much more about a person through his or her blog versus just talking to them in person. I've always wanted to write my own but my thoughts move too quickly for me to pinpoint and write down. Most people's blogs give me confidence that the is made up of good people. I hope to have one of those blogs someday. I have a whole blogging system in my head; I hope it works out the way I hope it will.

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