Quotes from Nature's
Computational Science ... Error ... why scientific programming does not compute. By Zeeya Merali.
"There are terrifying statistics showing that almost all of what scientists know about coding is self-taught," says Wilson. "They just don't know how bad they are."
"In the long term, though, Barnes says that there needs to be a change in the way that science students are trained."
"Science administrators also need to value programming skills more highly, says David
Gavaghan, a computational biologist at the University of Oxford, UK."
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Gavaghan now uses the software industry's 'master–apprentice' approach to train graduate students in his lab."
And this one is really fitting if you work at a national laboratory:
"To all scientists out there, ask yourselves what you would do if, tomorrow, some Republican senator trains the spotlight on you and decides to turn you into a political football. Could your code stand up to attack?"
I couldn't agree with some of these quotes more .... see
Where Is Software Development Really Learned?
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