Interested in physics but *Hate* computers....

[mpresic]

You mention in your first post you need to learn MATLAB. The good news is MATLAB is much easier to learn and get up to speed than many other lower-level languages like FORTRAN or C. MATLAB is high-level (i.e. further away from the computer). The tradeoff is many MATLAB applications does not run as quickly as the lower level languages. This slowness is likely not going to affect your work because the computer is plenty fast, unless you are doing very number intensive calculations.

MATLAB is quite intuitive if you are familiar with matrix theory.

 

[Crass_Oscillator]

Yea but I came from a biology and chemistry background so my background in computer programming is literally zero. I guess I'll just have to accept that i like learning about physics but not enough where I am able to do research in it especially if it involves a lot of programming and computer work blegh...

The space to do biology/chemistry without knowledge of computers hasn't shrunk as much as it has in physics, but it's shrinking incredibly fast too.

The necessity of computer skills is just sort of a symptom of the times.

 

[clope023]

You can learn a lot of what you need for the type of programming you'd be doing (data analysis and such) online mostly for free; you don't need to take a dedicated college course:

https://www.coursera.org/course/programming1

https://www.coursera.org/learn/python

https://www.coursera.org/course/scicomp

https://www.coursera.org/course/compmethods

above are just some examples you could jump on now and get up to speed.