[justinclift]

Learning at least the basics of programming is generally a good idea, as it will help you to understand how things fit together. eg medical software + medical hardware

As you have ideas, you'll have a greater knowledge of what can work, and greater insight into how to approach things.

A language such as Python is very suitable for beginning programmers to learn with, there are many books/tutorials around, and the foundations of the language itself are reasonably stable.

eg the stuff you learn will likely still work in 5 years time :>