Kapil Kaisare, programmer looking to relearn the sciences

[kkaisare]

Hello, I've been a programmer for nearly 20 years and am starting on a self-study program to relearn subjects I'm afraid I've long forgotten. While I'm aiming to cover as wide a breadth as my time will allow, my interests will probably steer me towards the (structural and electronic) engineering fields. I hope to learn from other members here and make some friends in the process.

 

[berkeman]

Welcome to PF!

 

[jedishrfu]

Welcome to PF!

What are your fields on interest?

What programming family?

For the last 25 years itwas java but the previous 20 years was macro assembler, Fortran-Y, Cobol and then C/C++ and now it's python, C/C++ with CUDA and OpenMP.

 

[sbrothy]

Welcome to "the family"! Retired programmer here too. Catching up is a lot of work. I'm aiming for building an electronic gadget (Raman-spectrometer.... see my signature for my non-functional website which is a work in progress as I made a design failure in the beginning; and yeah, I know it's a mess.) I'm about to give up and just buy a complete Raman-spectroscopy set. If I have to start from scratch I'm gonna have to build a knife-edge laser diagnostic thingie too, so I might as well just swallow the camel....

It'll still be cheaper. It's almost impossible to make it more expensive that's for sure!

EDIT: C/C++ here too. Embedded, legacy, you name it.

EDIT2: Don't know if this is public, but his is just one of my messy projects done for fun and to kill time. I understand if you wonder how much free time I have:

https://sourceforge.net/p/sbrothy/code/ci/master/tree/