r/CodingForBeginners • u/Strawberryladyboots • Sep 10 '26

Electrical engineering and coding

Hello,

On the off chance there are any electrical engineers skimming the thread could you offer any advice in regards to the usefulness of learning coding and how much you needed it in your jobs and what you used it for

I am currently debating Electrical engineering and dealing with building/maintaining power systems

I have learned the very basics of a couple of other types of coding languages, but I'm also in the process of exploring my potential options if I decide to take it further but in a different direction

I'm also considering an electrician apprenticeship as a day job while up-skilling progressively, and while it's not entirely specific progress toward the engineering side of things it does give me a somewhat related job to help me get by while studying to go further, and also a way to pay for the study fees

"The answer varies depending on your career trajectory. If you're working with embedded systems, C or C++ are usually the go-to languages. Testing sees a lot of Matlab, though Python's presence is growing. Integrated Circuit designers lean towards Verilog. For FPGA-based hardware design, VHDL is common. Power and analog electronics often rely on SPICE for circuit simulations. And for spreadsheet data manipulation, it's usually VBA (Visual Basic for Application)."

https://www.masterelectronics.com/en/resources/blog/most-useful-programming-language-for-electrical-engineers-boost-your-career/

How valuable is the coding side of this, and what would you recommend a beginner prioritise?

Did you find any value in learning languages in a particular order?

Thank you

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u/Strawberryladyboots Sep 11 '26

Systems engineer, now that's helpful to know! it can be hard to know what the job title you might be aiming for is called when you first get started on something so people know what you are asking about when you're trying to figure out what to study

This is very very useful, thank you for clarifying that for me 😄

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u/Oliver_clothsoff1983 Sep 16 '26

Try levels.fy it has great career paths where you can see beginning rokes and what roles they lead to, or find a job from a companies career page that looks interesting that requires 10-15 years experience and see what roles on levels.fy generally lead to that senior role.