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Especially today, now that most programmers aren't hobbyists who found a job matching their skills but people who explicitly learned to code because there's shitloads of money in the industry.


I think you can be a professional programmer because it's your passion and still not know what a MOSFET is. Computing is a large subject.


Of course. My point is, people who started as geeks are statistically much more likely to know basic EE than people who explicitly chose to learn programming as a career.




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