f I wasn’t already halfway through my undergrad, I would consider programming as a career solely on that basis!
Then learn to programme and see if you like it enough to do it as a job, or if it could be helpful in the field you’re doing your degree in. Being an X who can programme can be a powerful force multiplier of your effectiveness in quite a few fields. An assume very little intro to programming is Learn Python the Hard Way
I did take a class in programming last semester as one of my electives. My major is in nursing, and my father made the comment that “you’ll be the only nurse in Canada who can program.” I learned it pretty effortlessly (that class was the easiest A+ I’ve had in years) but it was a huge time sink, and I think I drove the TA insane by starting projects at home and then sending him emails at 2 am asking why my program wasn’t working.
Also I’m sure you’re right and it could be very helpful just to know programming as a nurse. At one of my part time jobs, the software we use to keep track of dialysis patients was actually written BY a dialysis patient, who I guess worked as a programmer and saw a need that wasn’t being filled. (I’m not QUITE at the level where I can write big, complex, useful programs.)
Then learn to programme and see if you like it enough to do it as a job, or if it could be helpful in the field you’re doing your degree in. Being an X who can programme can be a powerful force multiplier of your effectiveness in quite a few fields. An assume very little intro to programming is Learn Python the Hard Way
I did take a class in programming last semester as one of my electives. My major is in nursing, and my father made the comment that “you’ll be the only nurse in Canada who can program.” I learned it pretty effortlessly (that class was the easiest A+ I’ve had in years) but it was a huge time sink, and I think I drove the TA insane by starting projects at home and then sending him emails at 2 am asking why my program wasn’t working.
Also I’m sure you’re right and it could be very helpful just to know programming as a nurse. At one of my part time jobs, the software we use to keep track of dialysis patients was actually written BY a dialysis patient, who I guess worked as a programmer and saw a need that wasn’t being filled. (I’m not QUITE at the level where I can write big, complex, useful programs.)