Who needs programming as a chemist or a biotechnologist? Yes exactly, everybody... I learned that the hard way and after never having heard a single word about coding I suddenly stumbled into a thousand situations that could only be solved by means of computer programs. So now I ended up developing VBA- and Python-routines for signal anaylsis in spectroscopy and chromatography in order to just survive and although I'm not a native programmer I try my best ;)