When I got my undergrad about a decade ago, one of the core freshman classes was a lab course on Mathematica. Not CS style programming, but it was immensely hel

When I got my undergrad about a decade ago, one of the core freshman classes was a lab course on Mathematica. Not CS style programming, but it was immensely helpful in the rest of my classes for tedious calculations, eg calculating a Groebner basis or Taylor expansions of a Lie group.