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I spend the first three weeks on base R, to convey language-essential concepts ... Awesome. When I was at Berkeley, Linear Systems had Matlab assignments. The

I spend the first three weeks on base R, to convey language-essential concepts ... Awesome. When I was at Berkeley, Linear Systems had Matlab assignments. The real engineers (ME, CE, NE, ...) had taken a Matlab class and knew the language. We computer scientists hadn't and suffered horribly as a consequence. Your three weeks of learning base R instead of sink or swim will pay dividends.

notagoodidea 5y ago
Got the reverse experience. Trained in Matlab, R and Python, we had to follow a database/application class with computer scientist and software engineers where the big project was to make a basic Android application with sqlite database. That was painfully to be dropped in Android Studio without any Java knowledge. And because the class was focused on database, we had no Java introduction or whatever. We were able to team up with students from the other cursus that already had multiple Java projects and classes under their belt but the pill was bitter swallow.