Computer Programming Majors

[krissy]

my 231 prof writes our lecture notes on his dashboard, on a napkin, while his wife drives him to school and this is on the day these notes will be used


we had to do 7 assignemnts. 4 of them were making calculators.
i have been getting consecutive b-d marks on these.

mind you over the course of the semester i never wrote out any pseudocode or algorithms anywhere that were my own. : n\

edit: cpsc aint my major tho

[-N-]

You think programming is messed up; try building a chip that has to handle all your programs. *built a 32-bit MIPS*

[Dr Unne]

Circuit design is still a lot of programming too. For one of my classes I had to design a pipelined CPU that ran an ISA with variable-length instructions, i.e. some took more clock cycles than others. It's all still programming, it's just that the "language" you have to work with is rudimentary logic, wires and gates. So far as chip design, i.e. laying out a circuit onto a board and making it small and fast, I wouldn't know where to begin.

[Samuraid]

You think programming is messed up; try building a chip that has to handle all your programs. *built a 32-bit MIPS*

That is a lot of fun too.

It's one thing to write:
sum = 45838 - 3693;

It's another to just build a 32-bit ALU.

[-N-]

Circuit design is still a lot of programming too. For one of my classes I had to design a pipelined CPU that ran an ISA with variable-length instructions, i.e. some took more clock cycles than others. It's all still programming, it's just that the "language" you have to work with is rudimentary logic, wires and gates. So far as chip design, i.e. laying out a circuit onto a board and making it small and fast, I wouldn't know where to begin.

I see where you're coming from, but I see chip design as an architectural endeavor that uses micro/programming rather than the other way around. I can see it as both though, but then my head gets all confused. *shruggles*

[q=Samuraid]It's another to just build a 32-bit ALU. [/q]
Yeah, and then make it useful by sticking it appropriately into the computer architecture. The ALU design project I had was kinda fun, though.