I got my CIS from ASU in 1991 and had to learn binary base 8 and base 16 Final project was writing a registration system for a college. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Parrish" To: "Plug-discuss" Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 10:17 PM Subject: Re: Mensan seeks work On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 21:03, Kevin Brown wrote: > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ > Interestingly appropriate signature :) > > I just got through ASU with a BSEE and they do teach (at least to CSE and EE > majors) bit arithmetic. The class is CSE/EEE120 and goes through binary, octal > and hex math. The final project for my class was to design part of a soda > machine. Had to count coins and make change. > > Fun stuff, don't know what the Business students go through, but judging by my > friend who switched into it, they only have to deal with base 10 algebra. > ________________________________________________ Good to know they still have the soda machine project. I got a internship just from showing that project at a conference. From the excitment it generated I assumed that most schools don't teach it. And this was about 9 years ago. ________________________________________________ See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss