hey guys, I am a biostats student currently working in genomics and neural signals processing. I am very comfortable with R and Matlab and have a good amount of ML experience (in R) as well.
It seems to me that a lot of these jobs want people that can develop in Java or have a much stronger CS background than I have (I've done a little C from way back when). I'm sure I can pick up the basics, but have no experience in actual software development or working directly with data bases (sql). My questions are:
On what level is Java/C++ usually implemented in these types of jobs and are there any resources to get familiar with using Java in a big data type of setting?
Other than speed, are there other big advantages to using a compiled language?
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