I am a Software Engineer, and I have been one for more than 10 years. I studied Communications Engineering. I am giving these initial detail because I think you don't need to drop out of school if you are considering going into IT.

Your mom is correct in some way, Electrical Engineering is broad and you can specialize in many similar fields later.

You can get books and online resources to grow your IT skills. I learned how to code in school during my undergraduate degree, you can do that too.

I don't think you should drop out. There are many courses in undergraduate Electrical engineering classes that you can apply in real-life. E.g Statistics, Linear Algebra, Calculus, Digital Electronics, Information theory, etc. I have applied the knowledge that I learned from these classes in my day job at some point.

lordZOUGA: is this not just a name given to a normal developer's routine? write, test and commit.
are you telling me that during the lifecycle of developing a software that you stick to one development pattern?
believe me, I do understand the basic ideologies of these development patterns but I just use it the way it suits me not the other way round.
besides, real programmers ship, checking if every line of code I write adheres to a certain pattern is just redundant

I shared this same feelings,until I had to work with a team of developers that were miles a part.And the common theme was it's working on my machine and it's not working on yours,this was as a result in fairly different development enviroments,was my module tested against their most recent comits etc.With CI the automated tests and builds you get to know as soon as you commit.Again there is no best to do anything but what works for you.

funny that POS has been sitting in my office for a while ,i have the SDK although it has been another team that has been working on the project.but i think i can help
Mail me:
solomonope@gmail.com

@Gudman, i did not opt out it was used for a client and it is in production ryt now, i am sorry for the confusion.

Hi,

I can help,but do you have ingenico SDK?.
you can contact me solomonope@gmail.com.

i've used it before.

It can accept.
VISA(Local and International)

MASTERCARD(Local and International)

=N=250K thats wot they charge and =N=5000 monthly access.

and it is very easy to integrate.

Hello All

We are hiring experienced Developers with proficiency in any of the following languages

C/C++,Java,Php


Please forward your CV to:

bunmi.awonowo@iisysgroup.com
or
bankole.alani@iisysgroup.com

thanks

solomonope@gmail.com

Anyways, it is impossible for your check to go
to anoda person and i am hearin dis for the first
time. u can stop d check if dats true

i have recieved someone else's check before. i did not try cashing shay.

i've been able to solve this problem, all i did was to download a later version of a dll from the grfinger website and replace it with the oldone and it went well.

@poster
get the wsdl documents of the webervices you want to consume.u shld be able to use this document to generate a proxy class in java with these document.am sure a java ide like eclipse might help to generate this

@kobenol
check for the kind of 8bit processor i.e the manufacture and all those stuff.may be ur chip can support an rtos. but since it is an 8bit chip it won't be so different from the mcu's we have been talking about here.just google RTOS

@aksat
dot matrix modules that is what u need. u can look for them in oshodi shop a7.
i have a friend that builds programmers for sale > =N=10,000 i can contact him on the cct.

@aksat it is not realy difficult u can even simulate it first.i use proteous.

here is what u asked for
source:
sbit LCD_RS at RB4_bit;
sbit LCD_EN at RB5_bit;
sbit LCD_D4 at RB0_bit;
sbit LCD_D5 at RB1_bit;
sbit LCD_D6 at RB2_bit;
sbit LCD_D7 at RB3_bit;

sbit LCD_RS_Direction at TRISB4_bit;
sbit LCD_EN_Direction at TRISB5_bit;
sbit LCD_D4_Direction at TRISB0_bit;
sbit LCD_D5_Direction at TRISB1_bit;
sbit LCD_D6_Direction at TRISB2_bit;
sbit LCD_D7_Direction at TRISB3_bit;
void main() {
TRISB = 0xff;
TRISA = 0xFF;
Lcd_Init();
Lcd_Cmd(_LCD_CLEAR);
for(;{
Lcd_Out(1,1,"Hello World";
Delay_ms(2000);
Lcd_Cmd(_LCD_CLEAR);
Delay_ms(2000);

}
}

cct:

i can of like this corner and i thought is should contribute a project that any hobbist can play with
am using a pic16f877, i feel pic's are more common here in nigeria than any other place.
The project is just a digital themometer based on lm35 chip that gives a certain voltage based on the temp the voltage then goes to the adc of the pic which is then displayed on the lcd

Parts:
pic16F877
10k resistors *2
25pf capacitors *2
8MHz crystal *1
1 LCd *1
lm35 *1
compiler
MikroC pro
www.mikroelectronika.com
Source:
sbit LCD_RS at RB4_bit;
sbit LCD_EN at RB5_bit;
sbit LCD_D4 at RB0_bit;
sbit LCD_D5 at RB1_bit;
sbit LCD_D6 at RB2_bit;
sbit LCD_D7 at RB3_bit;

sbit LCD_RS_Direction at TRISB4_bit;
sbit LCD_EN_Direction at TRISB5_bit;
sbit LCD_D4_Direction at TRISB0_bit;
sbit LCD_D5_Direction at TRISB1_bit;
sbit LCD_D6_Direction at TRISB2_bit;
sbit LCD_D7_Direction at TRISB3_bit;
char txt1[] = "WelCome";
void main()
{
unsigned long Vin, mV,Vdec,Vfrac;
unsigned char op[12];
unsigned char i,j,lcd[5],ch1,ch2;
TRISB = 0xff;
TRISA = 0xFF;
Lcd_Init();
Lcd_Cmd(_LCD_CLEAR);
Lcd_Out(1,1,txt1);
Delay_ms(2000);
ADCON1 = 0x80;
for(;
{
Lcd_Cmd(_LCD_CLEAR);
Vin = Adc_Read(0);
Lcd_Out(1,1,"Temp = "; // Display "mV = "
Vin = 488*Vin; // Scale up the result
Vdec = (Vin / 100)*0.5; // Decimal part
Vfrac = Vin % 100; // Fractional part
LongToStr(Vdec,op); // Convert Vdec to string in "op"
//
// Remove leading blanks
//
j=0;
for(i=0;i<=11;i++)
{
{
if(op[i] != ' ') // If a blank
{
lcd[j]=op[i];
j++;
}
}
//
// Display result on LCD
//
Lcd_Out(1,7,lcd); // Output to LCD
Lcd_Out_Cp("."; // Display "."
ch1 = Vfrac / 10; // Calculate fractional part
ch2 = Vfrac % 10; // Calculate fractional part
Lcd_Chr_Cp(48+ch1); // Display fractional part
Lcd_Chr_Cp(48+ch2); // Display fractional part
Delay_ms(1000); // Wait 1 second
}
}
}

Circuit Diagram:

@beaf here is d stacktrace

am tryin to develop a biometric app using grfinger soon as i add the grfinger control on a form i get this funny errors i wuz wondering if any budy with exprience wit grfinger can help, a screenshop is attached with this message

#include "stdio.h"

int main()
{


int a, n, sum;
a = 2

while (a <= 2222)
{

for (a=2; a<=n; n=a*a)
sum = n+a

printf("The sum is %d ", sum);
}


return 0;
}

the program did not becos u failed to initialize n and sum and u omitted some semicolons,being a local variable the actual value is undefined so the first iteration of the loop might not even work

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{


int a, n=0, sum=0;
a = 2;

while (a <= 2222)
{

for (a=2; a<=n; n=a*a)
sum = n+a;

printf("The sum is %d ", sum);
}


return 0;
}

u can use this libray to generate ur barcode ,there are also 3 party libraries u can use to interprete a barcode from an image file

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/graphics/BarcodeLibrary.aspx

hi at commands are realy eazy to work wit ,am guessing u are workin wit a telit module gm 86 or something and probably a pic mcu check www.edaboard.com u would get help from there and u should check the at command set of the module u are using but it is realy easy to work wit
if u run into any problem call 08056244001 or email solomonope@gmail.com.

@poster ,hw can u have a first degree in engineering and can't program?

@poster i feel ur pain

java.sun.com

i want in
Email solomonope@live.com
and i already have a viewpath acct.

here is a c# example, the logic is the same and u have access to the same classes on the .net frame work.


using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.OleDb;
public class Program
{
static OleDbConnection m_Connection;
static OleDbCommand m_Command;
static OleDbDataReader m_reader;
static void Main()
{
m_Connection = new OleDbConnection(@"Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=C:\Users\Solomon\Documents\nairaland.accdb;Mode=ReadWrite;Persist Security Info=False";
m_Command = new OleDbCommand();
try
{
m_Command.Connection = m_Connection;
m_Command.CommandText = "Select * from threads";
m_Command.Connection.Open();
m_reader = m_Command.ExecuteReader();
Console.WriteLine("ThreadName\t\tThreadDescription";
while (m_reader.Read())
{

Console.WriteLine("{0} \t\t{1}", m_reader[1], m_reader[2]);
}
Console.WriteLine("Press Enter to Continue";
Console.ReadKey();


}
catch (OleDbException ew) { }
finally
{
if (m_Connection.State == ConnectionState.Open)
{
m_Connection.Close();
}
}

}

right now the most common embedded development in nigeria is mcu (mostly pic) cos they are cheap and easily accesible. and most of these developments are focused on undergraduate projects ,and i think there is also a fairly large markets too for PLC's too.

thanks

ur email i would try sending it to but it is large abt 25mb (pdf)

pls hw can i prevent people from seeing my codes through ildasm.exe

Am sure u've heard of .net's platform independence here is an open source implemnetation of the CLR,BCL ;
http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
www.go-mono.com

cool

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