144 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 14 Nov \ on: Considering a professional pivot, need opinions AskSN
If you're not into coding, you shouldn't do data science either. That's going to require a lot of coding, mostly in SQL, Python, and potentially R.
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I find that cybersecurity actually forces you to deal with the hardest parts about coding-- which is not the code itself, but figuring out how everything interfaces together, resolving or exploiting conflicting/outdated dependencies, implicit assumptions about directory structure, etc, etc.
Just because you don't have to code in cybersecurity doesn't mean you don't have to think like a coder.... and all the hardest bits too.
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this is a good insight because it at least helps me reduce options so i can figure something else out.
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