[fayyazkl]

I beg to differ on this point. Embedded software development in general needs more of core CS/CE curriculum than any normal application development does (web, desktop, mobile). You might get away with learning to program for say android, or say Dekstop apps in .net without knowing OS, Automata, Compilers, C/Assembly language, TCP/IP. But you can't do without those in embedded. Besides, learning languages such as C or C++ would require more time and effort. So unless this guy has gone through much of those in EE already, this is a bad idea in my opinion. I would also argue that even if he had, still going through all those courses in theory is different from going through them with a programming mindset.