Advice

In article <9ded7dd7.0504180953.e1a2ba0@posting.google.com>,
tuurbo46 <tuurbo46@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>Due to the world being (Mr 1.1, or 2.1), or you are in the doll queue,
>im kind of holding back and thinking of picking an easier subject to
>come out with a high mark (1.1, 2.1).  My boss said you are at uni to
>learn and marks should not be a 100% concern.

Your boss is correct.  In undergradate school, grades were important
to me.  After I was in the workforce for a while and decided to get
a graduate degree, I didn't care about grades at all; I was there to
learn something.  What mattered was how satisfied *I* was with my
learning, not how satisfied the professor was.

>Any more advice guys and girls?

I never took a DSP course, and I regret it.  My undergrad degree
was Physics, my graduate degree is MBA.  All my professional life
I've been doing engineering work in defense technology, as well
as financial market analysis as a hobby.  Both areas involve
signal processing of some sort.  I have found that my own personal
study of DSP has benefited me in both areas, both personally and
professionally.  I can only imagine what the benefit would be if I
had any formal training.

I never learned MatLab.  Alwasy wanted to, but I think too many
folks use it as a crutch, actually.  I prefer to write my own code
when possible.

I'd take an introductory course in DSP if I were in your place.  In
your job, it's possible that you could use it to make your company's
products better.  It's like Jerry said, if you know how the stuff
under the hood of your car works, that knowledge can be useful to
you, not just to an auto mechanic.

-Alex

axlq wrote:

   ...

> I'd take an introductory course in DSP if I were in your place.  In
> your job, it's possible that you could use it to make your company's
> products better.  It's like Jerry said, if you know how the stuff
> under the hood of your car works, that knowledge can be useful to
> you, not just to an auto mechanic.

Get Octave or Scilab. They're free, so not becoming skillful isn't painful.


Jerry
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Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.
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If you have been a regular reader of this newsgroup and have been
coming  here because you are interested in the topics being discussed,
then  that is a good indication that you would enjoy a DSP class.

If this is your first time here, then I might suggest you follow a few
threads for a week or so and see how it strikes you.

Also get the course textbook and see if it makes for interesting
reading.

Mark