I recently felt the same way. I'm a comp sci grad that moved into Blu-ray authoring which involved Java, but it quickly became boring because the vast majority of it is just inputting x,y coordinates for menu graphics.
My solution was to get into Arduino. Just got it a couple weeks ago, and am having fun doing both the wiring and programming and getting immediate results from your work. I find it fun because it is a new system then what I program for at work, even though the programming itself is really basic.
Feels like I'm finally putting those EE courses to good use!
Excellent idea, I wouldn't mind a new house with built in window shades that generate some power, but I have one question I didn't seem to see the answer to...
How do you get convenient access to the power generated by a houseful of these shades?
They say an average person could install it, but I don't see average people wiring these up themselves.
Can't they just release a patch that changes their 'age' to 18? It's not like they need new graphics or anything, it's just a text change in some info field...
If you are a trendy game player you are buying the iPhone and games for it, but if you are an Android user you care less for games and more about being "free" ??
Another thing to consider: iPhone is to Android phone as iPod Touch is to what?
iPod touch is to Android non-phone....
archos 5 internet tablet, zii egg (dev edition but I would suspect a future creative consumer edition is in the works), any unlocked smartphone (you dont HAVE to have a phone plan....).
Android is just now opening up to devices that don't have the phone features so there are more to come I'm sure
I remember my first year of college, I heard a lot of the students talking about how useless the first class was because we were being taught COMPONENT PASCAL! Obviously, this doesn't appeal to the job market very much, which is what they were upset about, but it was a GREAT first language. It is so simple and easy to read that the professor simply used it to teach basics like loops, recursion, pointers, and object oriented programming, aka the THEORY behind the algorithms. I loved this approach, even though it had little bearing in the job market, because when we moved on to other languages, it was easy to abstract away that specific languages syntax and semantics, and really just get to the heart of the problem.
By the end of the major, students learned component pascal, c++, java, lisp, scheme, and assembly, and I feel that having an array of languages really helps me pick up any other language I would have to, because it's just a different syntax.
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I recently felt the same way. I'm a comp sci grad that moved into Blu-ray authoring which involved Java, but it quickly became boring because the vast majority of it is just inputting x,y coordinates for menu graphics. My solution was to get into Arduino. Just got it a couple weeks ago, and am having fun doing both the wiring and programming and getting immediate results from your work. I find it fun because it is a new system then what I program for at work, even though the programming itself is really basic. Feels like I'm finally putting those EE courses to good use!
Excellent idea, I wouldn't mind a new house with built in window shades that generate some power, but I have one question I didn't seem to see the answer to... How do you get convenient access to the power generated by a houseful of these shades? They say an average person could install it, but I don't see average people wiring these up themselves.
Can't they just release a patch that changes their 'age' to 18? It's not like they need new graphics or anything, it's just a text change in some info field...
If you are a trendy game player you are buying the iPhone and games for it, but if you are an Android user you care less for games and more about being "free" ??
Another thing to consider: iPhone is to Android phone as iPod Touch is to what?
iPod touch is to Android non-phone.... archos 5 internet tablet, zii egg (dev edition but I would suspect a future creative consumer edition is in the works), any unlocked smartphone (you dont HAVE to have a phone plan....). Android is just now opening up to devices that don't have the phone features so there are more to come I'm sure
I remember my first year of college, I heard a lot of the students talking about how useless the first class was because we were being taught COMPONENT PASCAL! Obviously, this doesn't appeal to the job market very much, which is what they were upset about, but it was a GREAT first language. It is so simple and easy to read that the professor simply used it to teach basics like loops, recursion, pointers, and object oriented programming, aka the THEORY behind the algorithms. I loved this approach, even though it had little bearing in the job market, because when we moved on to other languages, it was easy to abstract away that specific languages syntax and semantics, and really just get to the heart of the problem. By the end of the major, students learned component pascal, c++, java, lisp, scheme, and assembly, and I feel that having an array of languages really helps me pick up any other language I would have to, because it's just a different syntax.