From: Nasser M. Abbasi on 6 Jul 2010 17:40 On 7/6/2010 10:47 AM, Vladimir Vassilevsky wrote: > > > Rob Gaddi wrote: > >> >> 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. > > 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. > > VLV > > 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
From: Steve Pope on 6 Jul 2010 17:54 Nasser M. Abbasi <nma(a)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
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