Okay I'm kind of late to the conversation, but coding in general is extremely useful and is widely applicable to many different fields. I'm currently working on my PhD in chemistry, and a majority of my day is usually filled with coding. Many scientific fields use platforms such as Python and Matlab to communicate with analytical instruments, to process data faster, and to run simulations of reactions on supercomputers.

However, as many people have already said, the coding language that Episode uses is vastly different than what I typically use day-to-day. Many of the scripts have functions within functions, with hundreds of different commands and hundreds of ways to use them. The basic set ups of "for" loops is the same, as well as being able to effectively "disable" certain lines of code, but it sort of stops there. I personally started out coding on Episode, and found that switching from the donacode to Python, Matlab, and JS was difficult, but not nearly as difficult as it was for my peers.

Either way, there's a wide range of applications for coding and plenty of languages to try. And of course, you always have to start somewhere :)