In my experience: ask any Computer Science professor interested in undergraduate education whether engineers should take an intro course using Matlab or Python,

In my experience: ask any Computer Science professor interested in undergraduate education whether engineers should take an intro course using Matlab or Python, and they'll always say Python. Ask any non-CS Engineering professor interested in engineering undergraduate education whether engineers should take an intro course using Matlab or Python, and they'll always say Python. This argument seems pervasive across many institutions.