Preface
The internet of things is here, and soon 50 billion devices will be “connected.” So we are told. This raises the question: “Who is going to program all of these devices?”
In a major survey at “StackOverflow” in 2018, 5.2 % of the 100k responding developers claimed to work with embedded applications or devices. This is twice the percentage from the same survey in 2016. Still there is a large potential in attracting developers from the remaining 94.8 %.
Common to all these developers is the overwhelming amount of new domains they need to get into, on top of their basic programming skills.
The “2018 IoT Developer/Engineer Census and Analysis” from VDC Research states that “growth and demand has slowed for traditional engineers as engineering ...
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