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Lumifer comments on Physics grad student: how to build employability in programming & finance - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 09 January 2014 12:51:29AM 5 points [-]

which has little to do with comp sci

That rather depends. You certainly don't need comp sci background to write ten pages of spaghetti in VB for Excel. But if the OP wants to actually be a good programmer, a foundation of comp sci will help.