6.002 Circuits and Electronics

Discussion thread for the 6.002 Circuits and Electronics course.

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-002-circuits-and-electronics-spring-2007/

I found the lumped abstraction lecture to be condescending on programming and computer science.  We aren't just an over-simplification of physics through layers and layers of abstraction, right?

As somebody who actually *does* electronics and only programs on the side (and that poorly), I'm willing to give that if you have somebody else to interpret for you, if you're willing to give up that control, then yes, you can view your programming as a separate thing that has nothing to do with diodes or transistors.

That requires trusting your OS or your Java environment or whatever *far* more than I'm willing to on most projects.

Somebody once suggested to me that we should make Java a law and just optimize every OS to interpret Java. I almost wanted to smack him - how the fuck am I supposed to run Java on my 8bit microprocessor? Or on my µBlaze softcore?