I made this move (and back): treat the goal of software engineering like another topic to do a lit search on, map out the domain, implement a few papers, etc.

I made this move (and back): treat the goal of software engineering like another topic to do a lit search on, map out the domain, implement a few papers, etc. Instead of journals, you’ve stackoverflow, coworkers, Google.. I got out-coded more times than I can count, but as a PhD you can catch up quickly by treating it as a domain and problem to analyze and solve. For Python, the built in docs are already very good, but I use devdocs.io a lot.