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@StatGuy2000 said in another topic this part quoted here:
The listing of what was suggested for the PhD student to learn looks like a large amount. Four different programming languages, although he did not say to what level of proficiency.
Maybe not very smart of a question but how is "develop software" not about the same as "programming"? Maybe I am misinterpreting this.
Learning "introductory computer programming" , so so very many years ago for just one-semester's course, was very difficult. There was also included about two-weeks worth of "Fortran" which I found completely impossible to learn. The bulk of the course focused on an easier language which was often suitable for most people who did not really intend on focusing in on computerSci. (main language being used was BASIC.) So the one semester course was far too much for me; and @StatGuy2000, suggests the person there to maybe should learn C++, Fortran, Matlab, Python, R,... so I really wonder how long should that PhD person spend in months or years to become competent in programming for all those languages? I was IN COURSEWORK to learn computer programming, and I could not have done any kind of programming if I were not enrolled and attending the course.
(There is actually a little more to this about my own computer science/programming difficulties but I will leave off with what I just said, for now.)
The name of the topic was "From math PhD to space industry-possible?"..., generally require substantially programming skills, in languages like C++, Fortran, Matlab, Python R (for statistics), etc. You don't have to necessarily develop software, but you should be comfortable in programming.
The listing of what was suggested for the PhD student to learn looks like a large amount. Four different programming languages, although he did not say to what level of proficiency.
Maybe not very smart of a question but how is "develop software" not about the same as "programming"? Maybe I am misinterpreting this.
Learning "introductory computer programming" , so so very many years ago for just one-semester's course, was very difficult. There was also included about two-weeks worth of "Fortran" which I found completely impossible to learn. The bulk of the course focused on an easier language which was often suitable for most people who did not really intend on focusing in on computerSci. (main language being used was BASIC.) So the one semester course was far too much for me; and @StatGuy2000, suggests the person there to maybe should learn C++, Fortran, Matlab, Python, R,... so I really wonder how long should that PhD person spend in months or years to become competent in programming for all those languages? I was IN COURSEWORK to learn computer programming, and I could not have done any kind of programming if I were not enrolled and attending the course.
(There is actually a little more to this about my own computer science/programming difficulties but I will leave off with what I just said, for now.)