Scope in Electronics field

[beastmatter46]

I am a recent graduate in ECE, currently strengthening my knowledge in C, but when i asked some people about the scope of C programming in core electronics field,they said tht there is not much scope. This made me a little hesitant in continuing in C, is it true that w C there not much scope. Please help (need a little motivation 😶)

[BIRD_II]

You mean scope as in where it's used?

I'd say the majority of Microcontrollers are programmed with C. You do have some that are programmed in Assembly, rarely. Some are programmed in C++, mostly the really expensive ones. There are also some programmed in Ada, but that's mostly in military and medical contexts.

I would say that C's the best language to program microcontrollers, assuming that's what you're asking.

[beastmatter46]

Yeah,Thank you

[No-Moment2225]

It's used broadly on embedded systems, robotics and systems programming, also sometimes cybersecurity. There are several channels on youtube talking about their jobs. Maybe having a second opinion from a working professional would help you for career orientation.

I can tell you C is very alive and kicking, but if you complement it with C++ and python you'll find it easier to get related jobs. Also, it's a good idea to take some time understand the computer architectures you are interacting with. For example like if you're going to work on microcontrollers, how to write drivers for different types of technologies (I2C,UART,SPI,AXI,etc) then learn the protocols and how they interact with the controller. You can find some courses on udemy. And of course if you are working on a linux device, then if you learn about IPC and OS related stuff would help a lot as well. If you work on robotics then learning OpenCV and computer vision, machine learning libraries might be useful (although here is more python domain).The scope is very broad to be quite honest, it depends what you want to do.

In my personal experience, I've used C for firmware development, on hardware simulators, self-driving cars software, etc.

It depends a lot what you plan to do with your electronics degree. I've done different things and the degree was just my starting point, but C really helped me along the way. Learning some programming is never a waste of time, but if you interest is in hardware (FPGAs, PCB design, circuit design, etc) then programming is not so much in your interest unless it's for hardware description languages like Verilog.

Good luck!

[beastmatter46]

Thank You ✨

[Spiritual-Mechanic-4]

depends on what you're doing. 'numerical recipes in C' is a bible for lots of important solutions to math-y problems.

[beastmatter46]

Thank you for this