That's helpful. I really have no intention of competing with the CS core. I'm doing Industrial/Systems engineering, which is a rather broad field, so having skills like basic programming are helpful.
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Originally Posted by Nimetic
One thing that could be useful is to learn how to build small applications using VBA, so that you can automate stuff in Access and Excel. This is plenty useful and quite powerful for an eng. situation. After all - most corporates use MS.
You can always build on this later.
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Can you elaborate on that a little more? I'd like to think I'm fairly proficient with MS Excel (I know most of the formulas, know how to make graphs, but that's nothing too special) -- but I really don't know anything about MS Access. Is that anything worth learning?
I've heard a lot of good things about Lisp and Python, as well as Ruby/Ruby on Rails, but that's primarily web development and there's a lot of hype.