I agree with dottrap. Whenever I encourage someone to learn a programming language, it is usually geared toward R or Matlab or some generic scripting language.

I agree with dottrap. Whenever I encourage someone to learn a programming language, it is usually geared toward R or Matlab or some generic scripting language. Anything to give them more control/ability to process the data they are working with. Computers are powerful tools, but rarely do I hear people arguing everyone needs to be a software engineer or a computer scientist.