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Blogger Carl Cheo, who maintains a website providing numbered lists of tips for maximizing online productivity, has pulled together an easy-to-follow graphic answering the newbie question "What programming language should I learn first?" (pdf here). Cheo chose nine commercially viable languages as possible destinations as the viewer navigates the flow chart. Further down the page, there are tabs with annotated links to educational resources for each language. So what's in it for Soylentils, most of whom I'm guessing were programming newbies in the previous millenium? Well, maybe you have nephews or nieces who chose the wrong major in college. Besides, the graphic is amusing and clever, though probably not the last word on the subject.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Saturday January 24 2015, @12:54PM
For a battery powered device it depends on the Microcontroller but it's hopefully C. If you're not lucky it's either Verilog or VHDL variant or maybe even some assembly language.
For the workstation it's likely C for collecting the data, doing any live, time-sensitive processing on it, and then storing it - likely in a tabular text file - for later usage (usually importing the file into Excel).
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