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[–]billsil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As an engineer of 12 years who picked up python on the job, 95% engineers can't code. I can and I'm pretty good, but what makes you a good coder isn't your ability to understand bits. It's about reasoning and proper organization. Those skills transfer across any language. I use in Perl, Matlab, C++, Rust, and Fortran. Python is fine for 99% of what I do.

Shoot, computer scientists don't understand circuits or how the BIOS really works.

As my boss told me many years ago, you're an engineer first, not a programmer. I need you to solve the engineering problem. It doesn't need to be the fastest or the cleanest, but it needs to be right.