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Dave Farley, along with Kent Beck, Trish, Kevlin Henney, and others have renamed, and relaunched, the 'Continuous Delivery' channel as 'Modern Software Engineering'

Click bait headline. It is an opinion piece; it may be true (or not) but there is not references or clear justifications.

UK digital creativity and computing education to receive major boost as BBC Education, Micro:bit Educational Foundation and Nominet join forces again to deliver free micro:bits to primary schools.

As someone who teaches C to professional engineers, I'd recommend "Hacking: The Art of Exploration" by Jon Erickson. The first 100+ pages are the most succinct coverage of C I've ever come across (if you can already program in other languages).

Also, by following many of the exploits covered in the book, you get a real grasp of what is happening at the machine level - which is one of the major reasons you'd choose C over something more modern.

If only the term "engineer" was a protected term (as it is in Germany) then we'd understand programming isn't engineering and this report would be titled "State of Programming" - and still be a click-bait report (I'm guilty as charged!)

I wish that was the case, as in the "first things you learn in C" unfortunately in most cases I come across it's not and many C programmers maybe know that very basics (int* ptr = arr;) but not much beyond that.

True C++, especially with C++11/14 is growing, but based on all the recent studies (by people like embedded.com) C is still a long way ahead of C++ in the embedded space.