<p>Alright, so I'm taking a summer semester at a community college to get some easy and useless classes out of the way. I have history, chem, and calc I lined up, and I would like to do one more so that it's near enough to a normal amount of semester hours. I was looking at the GT transfer equivalent catalog as well as the freshman year courses, and I noticed that the community college offered Computing Fundamentals for Engineers, and I'd like to know if this is a class where it would be extremely beneficial to take at GT as opposed to the CC, or if it's something that if you don't know all that well then it wouldn't be a problem.</p>
<p>I'm a pretty good programmer though, I've been doing it for a very long time though I don't know how much CS-like programming correlates with engineering programming. Anyone who's taken the class and has experience, please post advice on the matter.</p>
<p>Programming is very important in some engineering jobs and not as important in others. It really depends. I can tell you that if you ever go on to grad school then you better be pretty proficient in programming. Still, I don’t see it as being a problem if you take it at a CC. You have years to hone those skills, and the only real way to get good at it is practice, not some goofy class. Calculus is much more important than this programming class, so if you are willing to do calc at the CC, then there is no reason not to do the Computer class.</p>
<p>What sort of languages are taught in these classes? Do engineers use C++ (or something related) like most industrial IT and software developers?</p>
<p>Most engineers that I know use one of: Matlab, FORTRAN, C/++, Perl, or Python. Of course there are more languages that get used out there, but in my adventures, those are the most common.</p>