One of the recent changes in pop-culture is that “nerds are cool.”  Most people who claim to be a nerd like to wear 1950s (non-corrective) glasses and download Apps on their iPhone.  Some go farther and say they’re engineers.  Here’s how you can sort out the posers.

The original author for this test is unknown.  A quick Google search comes up with a number of duplicates, but no one claiming to be the author.  So, republished with my own comments (and slight edits) is, the “Engineer Identification Test.”

Warning, the title of this post is a little bit misleading. It isn’t just one-click to get cleanly formatted code, it’s actually two.

There are two things seasoned programmers will tell new programmers, that they don’t understand (at first):

  1. Always comment your code
  2. Properly indent code

The problem?  As a new programmer, you might not know how to do #2 until you get some experience.

Title:  The Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill.

 

Most electronics books are written by engineers, for engineers.  It is difficult to find an extremely comprehensive book which covers most Electronics subjects that is written in plain english.

This is that book.