EEL 4834: Programming for Engineers August 26

Filed under General by Oscar Boykin | 8 comments

Welcome to the fifth installment of Academic School Years, featuring me, Professor Boykin. In this exciting episode, I’ll be teaching EEL 4834, Programming for Engineers. The 4834 course web page is on my wiki.

As the above XKCD comic depicts, Python is more fun than perhaps any programming language has any right to be. Nevertheless, we will not question that fact, but accept it, and master the wonderful language.

8 comments

  1. ESD Aug 17

    Python is definitely one of the best programming languages. It’s easier to program than anything I can think of. That cartoon is hilarious!

  2. Deathnote Aug 19

    ahahaha, classic strip. So true. I just started learning Python. I just gave up programming after trying to learn C and C++. Python is great.

  3. Distance Learning Aug 22

    My engineering courseload a few years ago never required me to learn Python. We had to learn some basic HTML, PHP, JAVA, C++, and vb.net. I think the vb.net was most practical since I ended up using it most after graduating.

  4. PHP Programmer Sep 17

    Python has gained lot of prominence since Google adopted it for several things. PHP is not bad either.

  5. Daniel Lew Sep 30

    LOL, this is fantastic, Go Python! There are very few great programmers that are also creative, you have inspired me to find others like this!!

  6. evden eve nakliyat Oct 3

    Python is definitely one of the best programming languages. It’s easier to program than anything I can think of. That cartoon is hilarious!! thanks

  7. Josh @iDTech Oct 22

    This reminds me of a similar gag that I saw, it is a hierarchy of programmers each thinking they are better than the one below them on the list. Python programmers are placed at the top, but to the side in its own column!

  8. Praxis II Oct 24

    I know that this course is designed to provide the student with a more detailed understanding of data handling, graphics programming, and computer communications in an engineering environment to improve their performance. Some of the topics covered in this course are:
    • Intoduction to the Visual Studio programming environment
    • Engineering data types/ Programming with the console
    • Saving and storing data to files in text and binary formats
    • IEEE Floating Point interpretation/ Microcontroller math
    • Document/View Architecture and the Foundation Classes
    • Introduction to graphical programming in Windows
    • Plotting data

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