Where Are Tomorrow's Embedded Developers?

An anonymous reader writes "In a similar vein to the previous discussion about the New York professors taking Java to task for damaging Computer Science education, Mike Anderson of the PTR group wonders why it's so hard to find good embedded developers these days. 'As for today's CS programs, it seems that long gone are the computer architecture classes, writing code in assembly language (or even C at this point) and engineering software economics. In fact, a large number of CS majors apparently believe that everything can be implemented in a virtual machine and that both memory and [CPU] cycles are infinite.'"

I've Heard of That Machine!

[chromatic]

In fact, a large number of CS majors apparently believe that everything can be implemented in a virtual machine and that both memory and [CPU] cycles are infinite.

Good for them; Alan Turing believed it too.

Re:CS != Programming

[debatem1]

Yet I wonder - what is computer science without the ability to actually program the computer?

Consulting.

Re:I've Heard of That Machine!

[nogginthenog]

He was right. Until Apple came along.

Q: Where Are Tomorrow's Embedded Developers?

[dvase]

A: Sitting in Electrical Engineering classes, most likely in India.