Historically, computing education in chemistry has gone through cycles of popularity. When desktop computers first became available in the 1980s, the adoption of teaching programming was common across the general chemical curriculum but was removed in the late 1990s. Since then, computing has been the primary tool of theoretical or computational chemists, focused on atomistic and electronic modelling. As a result, when undergraduate chemists are trained, the digital skills they are exposed to are often limited to this area. However, with growth areas such as machine learning, automation, and data science becoming increasingly present in chemical research , a higher level of digital literacy is becoming a necessity for many chemists.