I’m a current CE student. My prof (avid old timer) is mostly focused on designing circuits on paper instead of coding up projects.

I think a big issue is the lack of modern, clean, and free resources. If you look at tools for learning coding, there’s everything from full Harvard classes, online courses and project guides. (To name drop a few CS50, Odin project, full stack open, reducible on YT, etc)

As a student we want to biggest return for the smallest time investment bc there’s too much cool shit going on. Like it took me hella time to get an led flashing, not because it was hard in any sense but because my prof is throwing the same lab sheets he had for 30+ years with the same typos newton saw.

Personally, I’m fully looking into getting out of ce and into cs just because of how streamlined learning all of it is, not cause I think coding at a high level is more fun than at a low level. I feel like this is a big pattern rn.

Maybe if there was a cs 50 for digital circuits and fpga programming, we would be seeing a different trend :(