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Optical physicist here. I spend >80% of my time writing software and agree that I was woefully unprepared for this by my education. When I was a student the p
by mmmBacon 9y ago
Optical physicist here. I spend >80% of my time writing software and agree that I was woefully unprepared for this by my education. When I was a student the prevailing attitude that skills like programming were "trivial" and that formalized programming/computer science classes were unnecessary because it could be easily learned.
- jessriedel 9y agoMy comment doesn't address whether physicist who mostly write software are prepared to do it, it addresses the fraction of physicists who are doing this.