I just discovered some old course material from my brief venture into studying EE at a University.
How the F**K did they think that this was a good or even acceptable way to teach people electronics?!
"Wanna know about electronics?! Here learn EVERYTHING EVER WRITTEN ABOUT IT!"
"Oh and practice? Theory is the really practice!" Which is what was literally printed (in other words) on the front of one of the course material...
At a university which is supposed to focus on the PRACTICAL parts. Mind boggling...
How is that even teaching if you are just a verbal form of a Wikipedia article.
This is the tldr; of just 2 courses that semester of I think 6 in total. This is not some book to read no this is the short form of what was said during the lecture.
And the uni I went to was even supposed to be one of the easy ones from what I heard from students who switched.
This makes me really quite mad. It made me feel inferior for quite some time and made me think I could never be a "real" engineer because I couldn't make sense of all this other than memorising and barfing it out again.
Especially because EVERYTHING was taught via math first.
And yes I really really suck at math. I can not make sense of problems that are taught via an equation to me. I need to visualize concepts and problems in order to understand and solve them. This is how my brain works.
And of course there is stuff to calculate in electronics but thats not what this is about its the fact that they take a topic that can be taught in many ways and choose to teach it always and only via its mathematical proof.
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