BROADCASTS.com

Dennis Jackson spoke with us about making the career shift from software to embedded.

Dennis buys James Grenning\u2019s Test Driven Development in Embedded C for his new hires and often recommends Elecia\u2019s Making Embedded Systems. His tip that everyone should know was \u201cLearn make!\u201d and he has a reference for that: Why Use Make.

He suggested Joel Spolsky\u2019s reading lists from Joel On Software, even the ones that don\u2019t obviously apply.

Additional suggested-reading articles:

• 30 Pitfalls for Real Time Systems (part 1 and part 2)

• Rules for defensive C programming

• Why are you still using C

• What every computer scientist should know about floating point arithmetic

• The Power of Ten -- 10 Rules for Writing Safety Critical Code

In his previous appearance on Embedded (#94: Don\u2019t Be Clever), we talked about code complexity and measuring cyclomatic complexity. At that time he wanted a tool to monitor the code\u2019s status. He has since found one: pmccabe.