It’s been a might long time since I last created an EmbeddedSphere post. Here’s some web items that have caught my eye:
A ‘C’ Test: The 0×10 Best Questions for Would-be Embedded Programmers - An excellent example of sane C interview questions. Well worth a read.
Netrino - The tag line for the site is “The Embedded Systems Experts”. Well worth checking out as they kindly make a large number of embedded software articles available for reading.
Embedded Group on LinkedIn - There’s a group for embedded engineers available at LinkedIn. I can’t really comment on how useful it is as I haven’t had a chance to browse through it any detail yet.
Making C behave like C++ - Ah yes, the great C versus C++ debate for embedded systems. Miro Samek has a good article on how to add object based programming concepts to C. The comments on the post are well worth reading as well.
While searching for embedded blogs I came across the Low Country Software Ramblings blog asking the question Am I alone?
Thankfully Benoit was able to answer his own question and point to a number of embedded blogs via embeddedgurus.net.
My search continues and hopefully some more embedded web logs can be unearthed in the coming weeks. If you know of any please leave a reply.
Edit. - embeddedgurus.net seems to be inactive. The latest posts on the blogs are all 2006 and the forum is full of spam. However some of the old posts are well worth reading.
If you’re interested in how technology works, enjoy a tough challenge and want to mix science, programming, hardware, software and engineering discipline then embedded engineering may be the career for you.
The most direct route into embedded software engineering is through an EE (electrical/electronic engineering) degree. Every other approach will be harder.
A computer science related course will churn out graduates with some of the necessary programming skills for embedded work, but an EE graduate will understand the code and the layers below the code - from processor design, digital circuit design and semiconductors right down to quantum mechanics. In fact an electrical/electronic engineering degree allows for many different career paths, with various side way moves available into such diverse areas as management consultancy and biomedical engineering.
So if you’re an embedded engineer what was your route to getting there? Any advice for those looking to get into embedded work?
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