MATLAB or python for an aspiring mechanical engineer?

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>>8321956
Julia.

>>8321956
Either really

Probably VBA or python, not everyone uses matlab

>>8321956
Both, they are both extremely simple languages.

I prefer matlab though because it had a lot of built in libraries for engineering math and stats.

>>8321956
neither.

VBA and C+ are what you want for programming languages.

VBA because literally everyone has excel, and C+ because thats what most control systems are done in. MATLAB is academia shit that noone really uses and Python is hobbyist/start up tier garbage that no mechanical engineer should take seriously.

learn how to use AN$Y$

>mechanical engineer
>aspiring to do something worthwhile

kek

>>8322067
>VBA
>2016

pick one

Depends. But I'd lean towards python as the skills in that are more transferable. I'd say though that a good breadth is good. Learn a JVM language, c++, MATLAB/Mathematica and something like python. Probably overkill but the above would allow you (as a non-programmer) to not be limited by your programming knowledge in any role.

>>8322073
>t. NEET self-studier

>>8321956
I use python a lot more than I use matlab. I know that people in my old math department at uni are switching to python as well.

but honestly MATLAB is so easy to learn that there's no reason not to. python is harder, although still relatively simple, but in my experience it's incredibly useful in so many situations once you know it. I'm not even a good python programmer and it still makes my life a lot easier.

>>8322089
9/10 its going to be all you got m8.

>>8321956
If you learn python it probably wouldn't be too hard to pick up matlab afterwards.

>>8321956
Brainfuck

>>8321956
1st priority: Matlab, C++
secondary: Python, Forth

>>8321956
Both.
>>8322067
>> VBA
WHAT YEAR IS THIS? Who the fuck still uses VBA?

>>8323274
>Who the fuck still uses VBA?
engineers