Does a good programmer need to be able to understand how computers work on a fundamental electrical level?
Does a good programmer need to be able to understand how computers work on a fundamental electrical level?
Asher Price
Jaxon Walker
most don't
Carter Wood
most should
Carter Clark
Only those that write things like firmware.
Gavin Hall
electricity go in electricity go out
t. 300k/yr software engineer
Robert Sanders
if you can't design a single-supply, negative-feedback-compensated two stage common emitter->common collector BJT amplifier with bias stability and maximum AC swing, you shouldn't even be allowed near a keyboard desu
Noah Rivera
Imagine just like rewiring a few of those cables randomly
Colton Wood
electrons go in neofetch comes out.
.t NEET.
Ayden Cox
do you also care if a physicist can develop an OS from scratch? they certainly know all about electricity. stop asking dumb questions.
Brody Peterson
>Does a good programmer need to be able to understand how computers work on a fundamental electrical level?
yes, dumbcunt.
dumbcunt
Henry Ramirez
Not in the slightest. It could be running on magical runes and that would have zero effect on you, as long as the observed behavior is the same.
Julian James
Absolutely yes. But not because it will be useful, actionable knowledge.
It is quite simple to learn and any programmer worth shit will be curious enough to learn it. I (along with everyone else on my class) built a simulated microcoded 8-bit CPU as a third semester project.
It may not be immediately useful, but it expands your knowledge and makes you a better programmer.
Things like that are what separate a midwit programmer from a great programmer.
Joseph Lewis
No, but there’s more to life than being a good programmer. Are you interested in how it all really works, physically? Then learn about electrical engineering
Mason Bennett
How fundamental are you talking about? Quantum electrodynamics? Maxwell's equations? Circuit theorems?
Grayson Foster
>It could be running on magical runes
i have news for you user...
Easton Rogers
Always been an eefag first and programmer second, also that's a complete mess
Austin Walker
dumb faggot detected
Nathaniel Richardson
if you can't explain exactly what is happening in every part of this picture you shouldn't be allowed to even TOUCH anything more complex than a mop and a bucket
Landon Ortiz
protip: no one in that class works at a FAANG thus they are useless
Cameron Ramirez
>no one in that class works at a FAANG
Topkek. At least 30% work there, most are starting into either management or senior technical positions (including myself).
Easton Jones
This but also you have to be able to solve it all by hand without the use of a calculator or any other tools.