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I, for one, don't remember Mathematica being especially "friendly and approachable" either. Maybe for basic stuff, but my introduction to it was a grad-level c

I, for one, don't remember Mathematica being especially "friendly and approachable" either. Maybe for basic stuff, but my introduction to it was a grad-level computational neuroscience class, and it was the source of a great deal of misery in my life for a semester. Maybe for amusement value it /should/ be named Stephen.

ballstothewalls 14y ago
This is a common complaint, but I don't understand it. Most of my peers that didnt like it had no exposure to programming, though. I have tried to teach myself Ruby and Python before but I have never gotten really far. I am pretty competent in Mathematica though. The key is getting used to their documentation center where they have lots of examples.