Leftyretro
New Member
Seeing that this is such an international type forum, I'm curious about the titled subject. Here in the US I received my formal education in electronics in military training as a tech.
We were taught the fundamentals using electron flow (negative to positive) but were told that engineer types were taught using current flow (positive to negative) in universities and of course that explains all the 'backwards pointing arrows' used in semiconductor symbols Seemed that most of the electronics hobby magazines also used electron flow mostly.
So how is/was this subject taught in other countries? It's not really an issue once one has mastered the fundamentals but can be pretty confusing to new comers to electronics fundamentals.
Any other thoughts and opinions on this basic subject?
Lefty
We were taught the fundamentals using electron flow (negative to positive) but were told that engineer types were taught using current flow (positive to negative) in universities and of course that explains all the 'backwards pointing arrows' used in semiconductor symbols Seemed that most of the electronics hobby magazines also used electron flow mostly.
So how is/was this subject taught in other countries? It's not really an issue once one has mastered the fundamentals but can be pretty confusing to new comers to electronics fundamentals.
Any other thoughts and opinions on this basic subject?
Lefty