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Henderson Palomino
2 min readApr 16, 2021

How does the data behave in Developer Survey Results 2017 ?

In 2017 StackOverFlow conducted a survey of more than 64k developers left their feedback on how they learn and gain experience, in addition to the tools used each year and what their goals are, as data lovers it is very valuable information which will help us to look at new horizons.

Let’s answer 3 questions:

  • What are the 4 most popular languages for developers?
  • Top 10 most used IDs by developer type
  • What is the percentage of the 4 most popular types of developers with a bachelor’s degree?

Behavior of our data

Distribution of Job Satisfaction

We can see that most of the information has a positive satisfaction rating.

Correlation

Top 10 languages by Type Developer

Top 10 most used IDs by developer type

The 4 most popular degrees are

Conclusion

  • JavaScript, SQL, PHP, Java are the most popular languages; we also have a large number of Front-end Web Developers who have JavaScript in their preferences.
  • We can see that the TOP 10 developers in the use of IDS are: Sublime text, VisualStudio, VIM, Notepad ++, Atom, Intellij, VisualStudioCode, Eclipse, PHPStorm, PyCharm.
  • Here we see the percentage by type of developer is:
    * 80% of back-end developers had a Computer/IT related major
    * 77% of full-stack developers Computer/IT related major
    * 69% of front-end develoeprs had a Computer/IT related major

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