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> The grief factor of learning to code is on a different scale to every other major. One missing semicolon will take your whole tower down, and you realise this in the first day of practical exercises.

Only somebody with zero experience with wet lab chemistry or biology could ever write the above with a straight face.

At least you can fix a missing semicolon. If you screw up a long-running organic synthesis, or you kill your bacterial colony around generation 2,000 all you can do is start the whole thing over.



You will not be screwing up an organic synthesis or killing a bacterial colony in your 100- or 200-level biology course.

The author's point was that the early unforgiving nature of programming could possibly be a factor in the potential lack of growth in the field.


Speak for yourself. I definitely goofed up syntheses and badly botched biology labs in first- and second-year chem and bio courses.




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