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> If you compare the free support academic software developers receive from the rest of their community to other engineering disciplines, it's beyond great. Co
by veddox 6y ago
> If you compare the free support academic software developers receive from the rest of their community to other engineering disciplines, it's beyond great.
Could you elaborate on what you mean by that?
- rjsw 6y agoNot the OP, but I know of at least one University that runs "Programming for scientists" courses at low or no cost.
- fsh 6y agoThese courses are usually short introductions into python or Java. Most scientists simply don't have time in their curriculum for a full software engineering course.
- rjsw 6y agoI didn't claim they were good. My father is doing a Python one right now and I'm not very impressed. He is retired from the University but is still eligible to take the course.
- veddox 6y agoOh we teach programming alright, but software development is another pair of shoes entirely. Unfortunately, that's where the problem lies...
- zozbot234 6y agoThat's the whole problem with the "Learn to code" movement, tbh. Plus Python and Java are terrible languages when it comes to those broader swdev/softeng concerns.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 6y agoWhat is better than Java?