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SL4P:
Does anyone else here notice that electronics hobbyists generally have a better grasp of the subject and language than ‘coding hobbyists ?

80% of the time communicate with better structure, grammar and focus on the questions.
EE guys get about 90% of the subject in the first post, while software guys seem to miss at least 30% of the detail in the initial post.

Just my thoughts.

RJSV:
   First thing came to mind, reading your question:
   There I was, year 1984, a young EE, typing on my Commodore64, coding away (with a smile).
"Gosh,",  I was thinking; " This thing runs assembly language code that manipulates the hardware at (almost) ONE MEGA-HERTZ !!!

As a mostly hardware guy, I was thinking:
   "That's like...Radio frequency fast !!!"

pqass:
That's us software guys.... release early, release often.

magic:
I don't know, there are some really weird questions asked about electronics too...
Like that guy trying to build amplifiers out of capacitors only and crying like a typical software industry SJW when people "invalidated" him by suggesting it can't possibly work :-//
"You guys are trying to appear cool by putting me down, aren't you?" :palm:
(edit: maybe he was a software dev venturing into electronics as a hobby ;))

And there are rumors that professional British power supply industry is not in a great shape either :-DD

ebastler:

--- Quote from: SL4P on December 28, 2023, 12:32:55 am ---Does anyone else here notice that electronics hobbyists generally have a better grasp of the subject and language than ‘coding hobbyists ?
80% of the time communicate with better structure, grammar and focus on the questions.

--- End quote ---

I think it's age-related.  :P

Seriously though: EE hobbyists are older on average; a larger share of them is from a generation which grew up without smartphones, with their hastily typed messages full of acronyms and spelling errors. And also a generation where spelling was probably more relevant in the syllabus while they went to school.

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