Frosty_47
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Thank you all for providing supportive and interesting information! To be honest, I didn't expect so much response over this topic. I agree with what almost everyone has to say about digital circuit design being a very important foundation in electronic systems. I had a talk with my professor on Friday, and I managed to finish off some labs that day as well (currently 3 labs behind). The prof for my digital electronics is a really nice, easy going person. He basically allowed me to present him with the "left over labs" after the exam next week (basically rescuing me from failing his class because if I fail the lab work, I will fail the class regardless of the mark I get on theory part). I was thinking last night over my "hatred towards digital" issue and I believe the cause of this is primarily due to the practical part of CPLD's. We use Altera Quartus II to program the boards, and the moment our class started working with CPLD's, All Hell Broke Loose. The computers in our labs are overloaded with useless crap so we spent 15% of the time in the labs waiting for the damn thing to open up Quartus. Than we had this licensing issue with Quartus that would randomly pop-up when you are trying to compile your circuit or when you are trying to program it. This "licensing nightmare" wouldn't let you continue with your work (basically you have to find another computer, wait another 15 minutes until it opens Quartus and loads what’s left of your circuit). This licensing issue have been going on for the first 3-4weeks of classes. The college I attend would call and fax Altera 2-3 times daily trying to fix this issue. Anyways, I think that this licensing issue, unbelievably slow computers, and not so well written book sparked my hatred towards digital electronics. I actually enjoyed digital electronics the first semester when we did karnaugh maps, and some very basic circuits. The last topics we did this semester were: Sequential Logic; Counters and Shift Registers; State Machine Design. I don't experience difficulties understanding the theory part. What I hate doing is the lab part of it. I honestly don't know what kind of patience a person must have to carry out these labs (no wonder there are only 2-3 people in my class that actually finished all the labs). Anyways I plant to work hard this weekend so I can pass digital electronics this semester. I plan to attend a different institution in September (hopefully they won't be experiencing the same issues). Other than that I would like to thank you all for your supportive opinions on this issue. I will be definitely looking those books up on Amazon after I am done with my exams.
Thank you all for providing supportive and interesting information! To be honest, I didn't expect so much response over this topic. I agree with what almost everyone has to say about digital circuit design being a very important foundation in electronic systems. I had a talk with my professor on Friday, and I managed to finish off some labs that day as well (currently 3 labs behind). The prof for my digital electronics is a really nice, easy going person. He basically allowed me to present him with the "left over labs" after the exam next week (basically rescuing me from failing his class because if I fail the lab work, I will fail the class regardless of the mark I get on theory part). I was thinking last night over my "hatred towards digital" issue and I believe the cause of this is primarily due to the practical part of CPLD's. We use Altera Quartus II to program the boards, and the moment our class started working with CPLD's, All Hell Broke Loose. The computers in our labs are overloaded with useless crap so we spent 15% of the time in the labs waiting for the damn thing to open up Quartus. Than we had this licensing issue with Quartus that would randomly pop-up when you are trying to compile your circuit or when you are trying to program it. This "licensing nightmare" wouldn't let you continue with your work (basically you have to find another computer, wait another 15 minutes until it opens Quartus and loads what’s left of your circuit). This licensing issue have been going on for the first 3-4weeks of classes. The college I attend would call and fax Altera 2-3 times daily trying to fix this issue. Anyways, I think that this licensing issue, unbelievably slow computers, and not so well written book sparked my hatred towards digital electronics. I actually enjoyed digital electronics the first semester when we did karnaugh maps, and some very basic circuits. The last topics we did this semester were: Sequential Logic; Counters and Shift Registers; State Machine Design. I don't experience difficulties understanding the theory part. What I hate doing is the lab part of it. I honestly don't know what kind of patience a person must have to carry out these labs (no wonder there are only 2-3 people in my class that actually finished all the labs). Anyways I plant to work hard this weekend so I can pass digital electronics this semester. I plan to attend a different institution in September (hopefully they won't be experiencing the same issues). Other than that I would like to thank you all for your supportive opinions on this issue. I will be definitely looking those books up on Amazon after I am done with my exams.
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