Transition to Software Engineer

Hi all, I have been doing data analyst/ tid bit of data science work for 3 years. My company is asking me if I’m interested in transitioning to software engineer. I’m in contracting so the work I would be doing wouldn’t be cutting edge but it would challenge me since I don’t have much experience with traditional software. Pretty much all of my experience comes from data related work so mostly Python, and R. Is this a realistic possibility? I …

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