filter design

On 7/6/2010 10:47 AM, Vladimir Vassilevsky wrote:
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> Rob Gaddi wrote:
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>> Or, to tie it together, that the 'C' students you used to know, who
>> entirely failed to grasp the underlying concepts, are now professors
>> teaching that Matlab == DSP.

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> I think the problem results from objectivism and political correctness.
> A professor can only ask questions at the test only if he provided
> canned answers for those questions in his course. Hence the art of
> problem solving is replaced by the art of picking correct answer from
> the list of multiple choices. Matlab is the big list of such choices,
> hence there are so many stupidents matlabi around.
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> VLV
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This is form a class handout for a graduate level course in DSP that I 
just saw now on the net:

"matlab based problems may be included in all exams"

The above is a real course, offered by a large univesity in the US at 
the graduate level.

So, even exams in a digital signal processing courses will have matlab 
in them these days.

Witout knowing matlab, one can fail DSP courses. Does not matter how 
much theory they know. I think Nyquist would fail the above DSP course 
if he would take it.

I think I need to start studying Matlab more...

--Nasser

Nasser M. Abbasi <nma@12000.org> wrote:

>This is form a class handout for a graduate level course in DSP that I 
>just saw now on the net:
>
>"matlab based problems may be included in all exams"
>
>The above is a real course, offered by a large univesity in the US at 
>the graduate level.
>
>So, even exams in a digital signal processing courses will have matlab 
>in them these days.
>
>Witout knowing matlab, one can fail DSP courses. Does not matter how 
>much theory they know. I think Nyquist would fail the above DSP course 
>if he would take it.

Anybody can program in Matlab.  

If the course required one use C++, then there might be a valid
complaint that persons who know the core course material might 
nonetheless have trouble becoming proficient in C++.  With matlab
there is no valid complaint -- assuming students are given
access to a Matlab environment (and not forced to purchase it
or something).

Steve