Thank you for your comment. I am one of the old-school electrical engineers that used the slide rule since high school, did math in my head (I can do square roots!), remembered formulas, search for data in reference books and log tables, and use common sense and logic when I did my designs and applied data (the calculators and computers came after I graduated). Yet I have worked with hundreds of computers, mostly large-frame IBM systems, and I am now working with microcontrollers, such as the Basic Stamp, the Arduino Uno, and the Raspberry Pi. I am a DIYer and I still build my own experimental circuits (my favorite store is Radio Shack).
I believe that modern engineers should be taught old-school methods first so they know how to think, and then learn to use computers later.
