<p>I'm listing my major as Electrical Engineering, and I was just wondering what programming language they use within the college of engineering. Do they use C programming by any chance?</p>
<p>thanks in advance</p>
<p>The classes I’ve had to program asked us to use C or C++.</p>
<p>option to use either? or eventually both?</p>
<p>Some classes will want you to use C and some will want you to use C++. Usually the TA’s will have a testbed that only works with a certain compiler (usually the GNU one; Visual C++ is shunned for the most part).</p>
<p>I shouldn’t say it’s only those two languages that you will encounter because I know there are some classes that will make you use Mathematica or Matlab. I could see Java being required for Intro to CS, also.</p>
<p>The first one you use (like all engineers) is MATLAB. The second one you learn is C/C++ (with a small introduction to FORTRAN and cross compilation). You use MATLAB in a few classes such as DSP, and you use C/C++ in courses having to do with embedded programming and that teach you about computational mechanisms (you’ll learn about MIPS assembly first to show you how the computer is working, THEN you’ll use C to write some projects). Make sure you know C decently before you proceed to higher level courses as you’ll encounter it.</p>
<p>All right, thanks for the info guys. I’ve been teaching myself some C programming just to get a jump on things, and I wanted to make sure I wasn’t learning a language that I wouldn’t use =D</p>