Programming for Electrical Engineers

[Ryuk1990]

I've always been told that an electrical engineer should be well-versed in a high level programming language. Which would be the most useful? C++?

 

[Dr Transport]

Most of the EE's I know, have a working knowledge in either C++ or Fortran

 

[tedbradly]

Matlab is the most important one to know at my school. My probability class, my signals and system class, my pattern classification class, and many other classes use/used MATLAB projects.

Now, saying you need to be 'well-versed' is just ridiculous. You need to have a working knowledge, but it's not as if you need to code as expertly as a computer scientist. To put things in perspective, I had to take only one c++ course, which finished barely discussing what a class was.

 

[clope023]

MATLAB seems to be the standard, it programs very much like C/C++ so you'd be well served to learn either of those, I'm also in the process of teaching myself Python, which I found easier to work with than the more conventional languages, but if you need mathematical methods MATLAB is your friend.

 

[astroperson99]

Some basic assembly knowledge is really useful in addition to c++, matlab/simulink, python, fortran, java, etc... It really depends on the application, but if you want some starting languages, go for c/c++ and Matlab first. Learning different languages becomes relatively easier once you get really accustomed to programming.