What Engineers Need to Know About IT

摘要

Engineers have constantly been required to learn about computers, networks, and technical system configuration in order to apply those computers in their jobs. Years ago, in an era of analysis through batch computer codes (usually in Fortran), you simply submitted your deck to the computer operator and came back the next day to get a printout of the results.rnYou did have to know something about Fortran programming, but if you were using a commercial deck, or even a deck that was written by someone else in the company, that knowledge didn't have to extend beyond how to enter and format the data via the keypunch.