• Question: Is your work on the computers difficult and are you required to have qualifications in computers/computer sciences to excel in your speciality?

    Asked by to Jane on 18 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Jane Charlesworth answered on 18 Mar 2014:


      I find the computer side of what I do difficult a lot of the time, though after two years it is getting easier. I was trained as a biologist, so I didn’t do any computer science courses in my degree and I had to learn all of it by myself (thankfully there are a lot of really good courses online now, but it was hard). I think studying some computer science would really have helped–we use computers and programming everywhere now, so I think programming is a really useful skill for everyone to learn.

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