>Teaching students about parasitic effects, and the fact that
>those PCB traces aren't superconductors with no inductance,
>is very important, if they are to have any hope of getting
>things working right in the real world.

I still remember the university student we had here on a gap year, who had 
no clues about using supply bypass capacitors - never come up in class ... 

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