• Question: Do you find that you need to know alot about computer programming in your line of work?

    Asked by antimatteroffact to Ben, Jony, Katharine, Mark, Peter on 18 Nov 2011.
    • Photo: Katharine Schofield

      Katharine Schofield answered on 18 Nov 2011:

      When I was in research doing my PhD, yes I needed to be able to program in C++.

      My line of work nowadays is working in the funding and policy side of science, so I don’t need to do programming anymore (but I do need to use a whole bunch of other skills to do my job!).

    • Photo: Mark Basham

      Mark Basham answered on 18 Nov 2011:

      I certainly do, as its pretty much my Job to program software, However all of our experiments are done by computer, and you have to know how to program a little to use the equipment at Diamond, so all our scientists know some programming.

    • Photo: Peter Williams

      Peter Williams answered on 18 Nov 2011:

      yes i do to some extent – but i wouldn’t call myself a programmer, i’m not that good. i know enough to let me do what i want to, but perhaps not as efficiently as a proper programmer

    • Photo: Jony Hudson

      Jony Hudson answered on 18 Nov 2011:

      Yes, I do loads of programming. Writing the code that controls the experiments, writing code to analyse the data, writing code to simulate the experiments. Computers are present in just about every bit of science these days, so it’s a real advantage if you can program computers.

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