> Professors in probability theory/statistics often do not have great computing skill, they might know enough to get around in R/Mathlab, and teach you the basi

> Professors in probability theory/statistics often do not have great computing skill, they might know enough to get around in R/Mathlab, and teach you the basics in these tools, but a lot of times you are left in the dark in terms learning how to code. Hah, as a random anecdote, I had a graduate random processes class (from the Math department) last quarter where for one of the homework problems in his solution the professor basically used an Excel spreadsheet as a for loop. I was completely dumbfounded.