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A lot of online engineering courses use Matlab, generally where there is more emphasis on learning the algorithm than the programming. Matlab a lot of differen
by mcshicks 10y ago
A lot of online engineering courses use Matlab, generally where there is more emphasis on learning the algorithm than the programming. Matlab a lot of different specialized toolboxes like DSP. I've taken several courses over the last few years and it seems like they are about 50/50 matlab or python. The very popular Machine Learning course on coursera specifically uses octave. Usually Matlab offers a short term license for anyone signed up for the course. I think the thing about Matlab is there is not that much to learn if you just want to do some computing and are not trying to create any sort of reusable program. Also it can be simpler to setup/install than say ipython and numpy (again for a classroom environment)