[ultrasounder]

Been using LTSpice for the last decade or so and am just fine simulating everything from Buck to current sense circuits to battery monitoring systems to HBridge. Don’t know what your beef is with LTSpice but still can’t get around the fact you quit your discipline for the lack of a better tool. If you didn’t like what you had to deal with why didn’t you pivot to CS and invent a better simulation tool. Just saying.

[d33lio]

I'm really just being cheeky, the writing was on the wall for me about three years in that EE wasn't for me.

Granted, I make a great living writing software and honestly have really benefitted from my 67% complete EE degree. Software ppl generally have zero idea how computers work / how to really leverage hardware bits to accelerate certain workloads. The ideal CS education for me is based in EE but also starts with both lisp and C. NOT Python. However, I was a horribly distracted student throughout college so I really should be the last person giving recs for coursework.

[munificent]

> still can’t get around the fact you quit your discipline for the lack of a better tool.

When people are at the very beginning of some path, they have almost no attachment to it and the smallest nudge one way or the other can change their course.

Think about how many people say, "If it wasn't for <random elementary school teacher> I would have never gotten into <field they became famous in>."

[filterfish]

I got into electronics, which pretty much defined my career, at 14 when I went to technical college and the only reason I chose electronics was because I wouldn't get bullied as much! I struggled with it for the first few months and after I finally "got it" I fell in love with it!

I don't work as an Electronics engineer any more but I still have a significant interest.