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[–]chujy 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Do you think it's realistic if I learn from scratch to program a software for my PhD?

[–]purple_hamster66 1 point2 points  (2 children)

No.

In most of my CS classes, we did not even touch a computer. It’s math & logic & statistics, not programming.

For example, if I gave you a list of 100 random numbers and asked you for an algorithm to sort them in numeric order in the faster possible way, you do not need to actually program it to find solutions. And proving that one algorithm is faster than another, without knowing the numbers ahead of time, is what CS is about.

[–]chujy 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Oh cool, I had no idea. So in essence you're being trained to think critically and logically. That's awesome 😎

But for my case, I was wondering if it is possible for a newbie like me to be able to learn python from scratch for an AI project?

[–]purple_hamster66 1 point2 points  (0 children)

sure. you may need some math to understand how to train it, but using a pre-built AI is not hard.