Cory wrote:
-A person needs to start at the ground level and work up, instead of starting off at the tenth floor in a total state of confusion.-

okay than, we may not use microcontrollers in chip form, because in that case we will never learn how they really work. We have to build them with separate transistors, resistors and so on. Did you really do that Cory??
Are we living in the same century?

Engineers today are not building all from scratch. And I'm glad they are not. FAR most ALL ideas are born from combining things this days. And okay, I agree it is good to specialize at certain things, but in that case we also need some concepts from others.

If NOT, why are we all reading this forum? =)

greetings to ALL of you,

Henk