How do you use programming in your daily work 4

[Christian_S]

Hey

The last year I've been doing a lot of hobby programming, as I really enjoy solving problems by writing code. My wish is to implement some programming in my daily work as an engineer. To get some perspective and inspiration I wanted to ask here what type of challenges you use programming to solve in your work, especially structural engineering problems and what type of language you prefer for these problems.

 

[Eng16080]

What might end up happening is a mishmash of code that only works for certain situations, that only one person in the office understands.

This is an accurate description of most spreadsheets used at a job. Not sure what my point is. Just an observation.

I think if you're excited about writing software, then you should. I wouldn't necessarily assume that anybody else will use what you create.

One of the great side-effects of writing software (whether it be a spreadsheet or something more advanced), is that you'll definitely gain a better understanding of structural engineering along the way. It's impossible to write a program to do something if you don't have a solid fundamental understanding of how that thing works. Really, the coding is often the easy part.