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SO I'm confused....what is the extent of programming for biostaticians? When I look on job boards for master students, most says that you need to have strong programming knowledge in R/STATA/SPSS/SAS. What's the most complicated things you do with these programming languages?

Thanks for your response. What about the whole SAS programming deal? I heard SAS is just a variant of C....

Hi Everyone, I want to do a biostat masters, but I'm scared I'm not good enough of a programmer to do well enough. Do you have to be really good at programming to do well in the industry and in the masters program? Do you have to be really good with data structures and algorithms? I've taken a few Java courses (I'm a finance major), but I REALLY struggled. Is this a bad sign for me? I don't want my programming skills to hinder me from getting a job/doing well in a biostat master program. Thanks so much!