MATLAB is commonly used in introductory CS courses for engineering majors, since it's useful for a lot of general tasks and is pretty forgiving. MATLAB has a n

MATLAB is commonly used in introductory CS courses for engineering majors, since it's useful for a lot of general tasks and is pretty forgiving. MATLAB has a nice GUI and IDE. It also generates good graphs with minimal effort. Octave has a command-line REPL.