My journey inot the world of engineering

[peanutzrgud]

I have been in my computer engineering internship for awhile now and made this video a few weeks back to give not only my impressions of the industry but also how it compares to some peoples expectations.

I hope some people will be able to find this a little bit helpful and informative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvpESxp8vkA

[borka]

Engineers need math?!?

[OtsukiYorauzo]

Engineers need math?!?

Everything is math.
You are a result of math also, by being a 1 in a million probability in your father's sperm cells.

[Alitis]

Engineers need math?!?

Everything is math.
You are a result of math also, by being a 1 in a million probability in your father's sperm cells.

That's impossible! God made you from mud and mentos

[shubla]

I have to disagree with the part where you say that computer scientists use high level languages, because that is not true!
There are a lot of things one can specialize towards in computer sciences, many of which require usage of low level languages and low level knowledge of how computers and all that works.

[MagicManICT]

There are a lot of things one can specialize towards in computer sciences, many of which require usage of low level languages and low level knowledge of how computers and all that works.

Assembly isn't dead yet! (Despite Microsoft trying to kill it.) That's one of the things I liked about learning old school BASIC as my first language. It made learning actual ASM so much easier. Instead, if you're coming from a C++, Python or other OOP language, you might struggle with the nit-picky detail that ASM requires you to have.

If you are an obsessive compulsive computer programmer that has to have everything absolutely, perfectly efficient, Assembly might be right for you!

[shubla]

There are a lot of things one can specialize towards in computer sciences, many of which require usage of low level languages and low level knowledge of how computers and all that works.

Assembly isn't dead yet! (Despite Microsoft trying to kill it.) That's one of the things I liked about learning old school BASIC as my first language. It made learning actual ASM so much easier. Instead, if you're coming from a C++, Python or other OOP language, you might struggle with the nit-picky detail that ASM requires you to have.

If you are an obsessive compulsive computer programmer that has to have everything absolutely, perfectly efficient, Assembly might be right for you!

The problem with assembly (x86-64) seems to be that finding good material to learn it is very difficult. It took me 8 hours to make a program that reads two integers and prints their sum.
If I had access to the few references that I found after hours of digging around, it wouldn't have taken that long time. Yeah I guess that there are lot of "good" books about assembly, but books are time consuming and boring, often not good for complete beginners. When one starts learning something new, especially a new programming language, quickly getting to write some code that actually does something is important, more knowledge from books can then be acquired.

[Granger]

Try http://ce.kashanu.ac.ir/sabaghian/assem ... 201%29.htm - while it only covers 8086 it's enough to get the basic idea of x86. The -64 addons are just that, addons to the 8086 base principles.

[vatas]

That's impossible! God made you from mud and mentos

Unlikely that you meant to reference this, but Mayans had interesting creation myth for mankind. At first gods formed people from stone, but were unable to animate them. Trashed. Wooden people would move around and do many other human-things but were unable to reproduce. Trashed. Mud people reproduced but had the worst possible defect, they didn't respect the gods. TRASHED. Finally the progenitors of present-day humans were made from cornflour dough.

[peanutzrgud]

I have to disagree with the part where you say that computer scientists use high level languages, because that is not true!
There are a lot of things one can specialize towards in computer sciences, many of which require usage of low level languages and low level knowledge of how computers and all that works.

Very fair point. I was probably speaking in more general terms, and I do realize low level languages do have their place, I was just speaking from what I knew about the industry and how higher level is much more common in software development