Most Popular Programming Language of Aeronautical Graduates

Inspired by the last post Popularity of programming languages, I wanted to do my own survey on what language aeronautical graduates of India are coding in. Luckily i am part of a ongoing campus activity for aeronautical graduates, which gave me access to some data. So here’s the result. The sample size was 186. C…

sukhbinder

Feb,12

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aeronautical, aerospace, fortran, Java, programming

Inspired by the last post Popularity of programming languages, I wanted to do my own survey on what language aeronautical graduates of India are coding in.

Luckily i am part of a ongoing campus activity for aeronautical graduates, which gave me access to some data.

So here’s the result.

The sample size was 186.

C is the clear winner with 73% of the respondents using it, while java, which was the first in the Popularity of programming languages survey, was used by 3% of the respondents.

Since majority of the specialization was avionics domain, so the bias towards c is understandable.

Was surprised that just 22% have used Fortran, considering 90% of Aerospace/Aeronautical/Engineering code is in that language.

13 responses to “Most Popular Programming Language of Aeronautical Graduates”

Ender

February 29, 2012 at 10:02 pm

Sukhbinder – A lot of aerospace engineers work in the systems engineering side – control systems, displays, other embedded systems, etc. In those areas, C is king. Some use C++. Aero / Fluid / thermal is still ruled by FORTRAN.

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1. sukhbinder
  
  February 29, 2012 at 11:16 pm
  
  True. As pointed in the post, the major specialization in my sample was biased towards avionics and control system domain. Yes fortran still rules as I see in my industry!
  
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Aaditya Shrivastava

March 2, 2012 at 1:19 am

Hello Sir,I need c,c++,FORTRAN software for Windows 7 64 bit ,can u please suggest me that from which website i should download them?

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1. sukhbinder
  
  March 2, 2012 at 6:42 am
  
  Aaditya, silverfrost fortran compiler with IDE, gfortran and visual studio express edition. Use these keywords in google and you will get your required softwares. Cheers.
  
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  1. Aaditya Shrivastava
    
    March 3, 2012 at 12:10 am
    
    Thanks a lot Sir.I think without practice its not possible to understand any language thats why i needed all of them but after reading Mr.Ender and your conversation i understand that why Aesi enter those languages in our syllabus .
    
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kuldeep

March 2, 2012 at 2:08 pm

hi sir ,when i try to run any program in C language,using borland’s turbo C++,,it shows copilation successful on compiling but while running the programme it shows only a blank black screen nd do not display any line that was programmed..i’m using win xp professional sp2. plz help me fixing the problem..thaks

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1. sukhbinder
  
  March 2, 2012 at 7:28 pm
  
  Debugging is essential element of programming. Keep at it. You will soon find the little mistake. 😉 good luck.
  
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  1. kuldeep
    
    March 6, 2012 at 8:28 pm
    
    ya i got it ,,.
    
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  2. kuldeep
    
    March 6, 2012 at 8:34 pm
    
    sir plz tell about some simple softwares available that are
    helpful in understanding our subject AIRCRAFT DESIGN..
    i want to make some designs that we get taught in the class
    
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kuldeep

March 2, 2012 at 2:18 pm

i’m a AeSI student in GIE ,chennai,,i think Most Popular Programming Language amoung the student of gie is “C” . almost all the friends of mine who r learning programming ,they r with C

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Kamal Bharakhda

March 2, 2012 at 2:28 pm

Thank you sir for your information….

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David @ laser distance meters

March 16, 2012 at 2:52 am

What about the G language? Yes, you heard this right. *G*!

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1. sukhbinder
  
  March 16, 2012 at 6:21 am
  
  Yes have heard about G but is it the language for aero or scientific application.
  
  Julia is one new language, that is essentially developed for scientific community.
  
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