what is Microcontroller Subject about?

On Mar 26, 9:37 am, Pete Fenelon <p...@stratos.fenelon.com> wrote:
> cs_post...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> > If he were is some sort of abbreviated trade-school program, intended
> > to teach students to "do" rather than to "think" then it might be
> > important to target whatever processor they would soon be expected to
> > use.  Of course that might still be an 8051!
>
> Like about 90% of so-called 'engineering' courses these days? -
> particularly ones in countries to which stuff is outsourced, where
> 'textbook' answers and plagiarism are more widely tolerated? ;)

Textbook answers are tolerated in most real-world situations if they
prove sufficient.

Plagarism, at least of the "buy it rather than build it from scratch"
form is also often desireable.

Going to engineering school is about learning for the long term; being
an engineer is on a day to day basis about getting stuff to work
today.  Needless to say, there can be a big difference between the
two.

My impression is that your typical "outsourcing countries" have in
fact begun some efforts towards building genuine research
universities, as they are no longer operating just on a day-to-day
basis for which trade schools were sufficient.  It doesn't seem like
doing the low-end work alone is their long range plan.

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2007-03-27, David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> In English, the plurality of the verb always matches the
>>>> subject - it's not just an American thing.  There will be the
>>>> some variations from place to place, but anyone writing "HP 
>>>> have strong tech support" is not writing grammatically correct
>>>> English.
>>> Odd.  "HP have" and "Manchester have" are the usages I always
>>> hear on the BBC.  It's what I remember hearing in Englad as
>>> well. England.  It's possible I heard both and only noticed the
>>> usage that was unfamiliar, but I've also read about it as one
>>> of the differences between US and British English.
>> It will perhaps depend on the context.  If by "Manchester" they are 
>> referring to the football players, rather than the team,
> 
> I guess I don't really see the distinction.
> 
>> then it is possible that they would say "Manchester have
>> played well today", for example.
> 
> In the US it would always be "Manchester has played well
> today".
> 
>> But normally, "Manchester" would refer to the city, or a 
>> football team, and be a singular noun.
> 
> How is the "Manchester" in "Manchester have played well today"
> not referring to the football team?
> 

My point is that "Manchester has played well" is the usual thing to say 
in Britain too.  If someone were to say "Manchester have played", they 
are simply abbreviating for "The Manchester players have played...". 
And I doubt if the "have" version is said much in the UK, and certainly 
not by people who have a reasonable command of English grammar.

On 25 Mar 2007 10:25:49 -0700, "hassanishome"
<hassanishome@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>I am studying now a subject called 'Microcontroller 8051"
>What is the benifits of this subject
>I am mastering Computer Eng.
>What I can do with this Controller and subject in future?
>Thank you

I think most have missed the point. Its about learning the
fundamentals of programming a computer or microcontroller for the
pedantic.

What can you do with the controller? Probably nothing as a CE.
What can you do with the subject? As I said, you will use it as a
fundamental basis to how computers work. Even the modern duocore
pentiums still use microcode and instructions. They still use
registers and memory. ITs all the same, just on a larger scale.
Understand this subject and you will probably outperform most CE's.