What Employers Exactly Look for in a C/C++ Job Description

Nine times out of ten, you will come across a job ad that lists C/C++ as a skill requirement.

No matter the company, the job title, or the salary, you will likely find that the job description lists C/C++ as a required skill. Better yet, they want you to have 10+ years of experience using these technologies.

Why are these two languages from the 70s and 80s required for modern-day software developer positions?

Some will joke and say it’s because the employers are looking for candidates over the age of 50. Others will say it’s because the HR hiring managers have a lukewarm IQ that led them to copy and paste whatever Google listed as popular programming languages.

The bottom line is that anyone at any level in their software development career will come across this requirement for any job under the sun, be it as a software engineer, web developer, game programmer, or app developer. With so many different companies looking for this skill for any number of positions, it begs the question: what are recruiters actually looking for when they list C/C++ in a job description?

At this point, it’s pure speculation as to what recruiters really want. However, a few good explanations can help future software developers wisely navigate the omnipresent C/C++ requirement.

Employers Are Looking for You To Fill Any Number of Roles Within a Company.

Having an understanding of C and C++ allows you to fill any number of roles within a company.

Employers will often include C/C++ as a skill requirement as part of a broad job description to find candidates who could fulfill any number of positions or job requirements under the software developer umbrella. Often, employers are looking for someone who can do any of the following:

• Someone who can work with systems administration tasks.
• Someone who can maintain existing C/C++ code.
• Someone who can do heavy academia-related coding work.
• Someone who can be a game developer.
• Someone who can work with Android NDK apps.
• Someone very comfortable with memory management.

All of the tasks above can be done using more modern programming languages, yet are often taken over or completed using C or C++. C and C++, while ancient languages in terms of the speed at which technology modernizes, are still relevant for many different tasks that you may come across as a developer.

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What Employers Exactly Look for in a C/C++ Job Description

Nine times out of ten, you will come across a job ad that lists C/C++ as a skill requirement.

No matter the company, the job title, or the salary, you will likely find that the job description lists C/C++ as a required skill. Better yet, they want you to have 10+ years of experience using these technologies.

Why are these two languages from the 70s and 80s required for modern-day software developer positions?

Some will joke and say it’s because the employers are looking for candidates over the age of 50. Others will say it’s because the HR hiring managers have a lukewarm IQ that led them to copy and paste whatever Google listed as popular programming languages.

The bottom line is that anyone at any level in their software development career will come across this requirement for any job under the sun, be it as a software engineer, web developer, game programmer, or app developer. With so many different companies looking for this skill for any number of positions, it begs the question: what are recruiters actually looking for when they list C/C++ in a job description?

At this point, it’s pure speculation as to what recruiters really want. However, a few good explanations can help future software developers wisely navigate the omnipresent C/C++ requirement.

Employers Are Looking for You To Fill Any Number of Roles Within a Company.

Having an understanding of C and C++ allows you to fill any number of roles within a company.

Employers will often include C/C++ as a skill requirement as part of a broad job description to find candidates who could fulfill any number of positions or job requirements under the software developer umbrella. Often, employers are looking for someone who can do any of the following:

• Someone who can work with systems administration tasks.
• Someone who can maintain existing C/C++ code.
• Someone who can do heavy academia-related coding work.
• Someone who can be a game developer.
• Someone who can work with Android NDK apps.
• Someone very comfortable with memory management.

All of the tasks above can be done using more modern programming languages, yet are often taken over or completed using C or C++. C and C++, while ancient languages in terms of the speed at which technology modernizes, are still relevant for many different tasks that you may come across as a developer.

#software-development #programming #c #c++ #c/c++

How to Run C/C++ in Sublime Text?

C and C++ are the most powerful programming language in the world. Most of the super fast and complex libraries and algorithms are written in C or C++. Most powerful Kernel programs are also written in C. So, there is no way to skip it.

In programming competitions, most programmers prefer to write code in C or C++. Tourist is considered the worlds top programming contestant of all ages who write code in C++.

During programming competitions, programmers prefer to use a lightweight editor to focus on coding and algorithm designing. Vim, Sublime Text, and Notepad++ are the most common editors for us. Apart from the competition, many software developers and professionals love to use Sublime Text just because of its flexibility.

I have discussed the steps we need to complete in this blog post before running a C/C++ code in Sublime Text. We will take the inputs from an input file and print outputs to an output file without using freopen file related functions in C/C++.

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Dicey Issues in C/C++

If you are familiar with C/C++then you must have come across some unusual things and if you haven’t, then you are about to. The below codes are checked twice before adding, so feel free to share this article with your friends. The following displays some of the issues:

1. Using multiple variables in the print function
2. Comparing Signed integer with unsigned integer
3. Putting a semicolon at the end of the loop statement
4. C preprocessor doesn’t need a semicolon
5. Size of the string matters
6. Macros and equations aren’t good friends
7. Never compare Floating data type with double data type
8. Arrays have a boundary
9. Character constants are different from string literals
10. Difference between single(=) and double(==) equal signs.

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The below code generates no error since a print function can take any number of inputs but creates a mismatch with the variables. The print function is used to display characters, strings, integers, float, octal, and hexadecimal values onto the output screen. The format specifier is used to display the value of a variable.

1. %d indicates Integer Format Specifier
2. %f indicates Float Format Specifier
3. %c indicates Character Format Specifier
4. %s indicates String Format Specifier
5. %u indicates Unsigned Integer Format Specifier
6. %ld indicates Long Int Format Specifier

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A signed integer is a 32-bit datum that encodes an integer in the range [-2147483648 to 2147483647]. An unsigned integer is a 32-bit datum that encodes a non-negative integer in the range [0 to 4294967295]. The signed integer is represented in twos-complement notation. In the below code the signed integer will be converted to the maximum unsigned integer then compared with the unsigned integer.

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Let's look at how we can use the toupper () function in C

In this article, we’ll take a look at how we can use the toupper() function in C.

This is a very straightforward function, which converts a character to upper case. Let’s quickly look at some examples of this function.

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Using isdigit() in C/C++

In this article, we’ll take a look at using the isdigit() function in C/C++. This is a very simple way to check if any value is a digit or not. Let’s look at how to use this function, using some simple examples.

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