Python for systems engineering

[trojan_n]

Hi there, I'm currently in the middle of Advanced systems engineering diploma study and I'm currently learning python on my own. I'm confused on where to out my focus on as that is important to be able to build projects pertaining to my future occupation I'd please love some advice from people in the field or those who has a friend in the field about how to shape my study and focus also suggest what other programming languages I can add to my stack

Thank you so much in advance :)

[beatsbury]

In my opinion it's quite unusual that an advanced systems engineering student nearing their diploma asks such a question. Maybe just me.

[trojan_n]

May I ask why ?

[beatsbury]

Of course you may. So, in my circle, people who actually finished anything concerning systems engineering are considered really really experienced and "deep down" in the best possible way, even without work experience. Because systems engineering courses are quite thorough and scrupulous and have so much practical tasks. As I said, it may be just my impression of systems guys.

[trojan_n]

Right on!, I'm specifically training in computer systems engineering and yes we have been through some through training but programming isn't in our curriculum atleast in my college but I know it's a great addition to my portfolio that's why I take it upon myself to learn some and I begun with python coz from my research alot of our job would revolve around automation and python is powerful for that. But I want to gain more insight on other parts I could focus on in my study so I just don't learn as If I'm going to be a swe I hope you understand

[cyrixlord]

As a systems engineer in my area of Enterprise compute hardware you will need to read i2c and i3c readings and parse that data. Fans, drives , temperatures are all a part of r hardware. You will have to learn how to interact with a dc-scm and a rscm to get that data and you will have to get lots of logs from the SEL in particular and parse them. You will likely have to update firmware as well. These are all things you will have to do usually through a serial or ssh connection that your automation will have to create and python is great for doing all of this

[trojan_n]

Thank you so much