I don't know, you have to remember that the demand for LCD is growing rapidly as well.
I bought my Samsung SyncMaster 170MP for about $2500 Canadian (~US$1700) almost 2 years ago, and the price is around $1000 right now. Depreciation of $700 for 2 years of wonderful service - that's $700 well spent in my books.
If you are waiting for cheaper/newer/faster/better technologies to come out, you'll never buy it...
I've read the article on UWStudent.org, and while I don't know anything about E&CE050, as a computer engineering student at UW, I have taken E&CE150 not too long ago and I can definitely say that the focus is not really on the specific language used, but things like algorithms, data structures, sorting/searching, root finding.
The second course of the set - ECE250 - is titled Algorithms and Data Structures and is taught in Java, and in either case, you are expected to pick up the language and start using it without any hand-holding. There's one hour tutorial at the start of the course that explains the language used (it was C++ for me), and after that, it's just TA's helping people during lab hours.
I don't think this is as big a deal as it sounds...
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I don't know, you have to remember that the demand for LCD is growing rapidly as well.
I bought my Samsung SyncMaster 170MP for about $2500 Canadian (~US$1700) almost 2 years ago, and the price is around $1000 right now. Depreciation of $700 for 2 years of wonderful service - that's $700 well spent in my books.
If you are waiting for cheaper/newer/faster/better technologies to come out, you'll never buy it...
I've read the article on UWStudent.org, and while I don't know anything about E&CE050, as a computer engineering student at UW, I have taken E&CE150 not too long ago and I can definitely say that the focus is not really on the specific language used, but things like algorithms, data structures, sorting/searching, root finding.
The second course of the set - ECE250 - is titled Algorithms and Data Structures and is taught in Java, and in either case, you are expected to pick up the language and start using it without any hand-holding. There's one hour tutorial at the start of the course that explains the language used (it was C++ for me), and after that, it's just TA's helping people during lab hours.
I don't think this is as big a deal as it sounds...