Hey guys, So Im kinda flustered, I will be attending Purdue this year for Engineering and I plan to major in Mechanical Engineering. So i kinda looked through the courses and I cam across this thing called MATLAB, So in my school I didnt do Comp Science AT ALL, so I have not idea how to use excel, C++ or MATLAB for that matter, so will I be at a disadvantage or will these courses be covered in College? Or do you guys recommend me doing online courses? If so can anyone give me advice on where to start? Can I learn MATLAB straightaway or are there any prerequisites? Thank, Pls Help thanks.
Many students will have learned it and because the first year is weedout, it’d be in your interest to find a MOOC (EdX, Coursera…) that allows you to preview this. There are no pre-reqs but it’ll be a brutal pace for you if you’ve never learned it before.
https://engineering.purdue.edu/ENE/Academics/FirstYear/FYEPOS
Do you not have the option to take a course that covers C and MATLAB second semester?
Also you can assume you will have trouble (which you probably won’t) and immediately get a tutor to make sure you keep up.
Yea, there’s the course, but I fear I may be behind, because of my lack of exp/prior knowledge . Thanks for the advice anyways, really appreciate it, sorry to the moderator as well, didn’t realise my mistake.
Some CS majors go into college as freshmen with little to no experience in programming and end up doing fine. Thus introductory CS classes are generally taught assuming the students have no previous experience.
Basically don’t worry about your lack of MATLAB or C knowledge right now. You don’t need to know them now and you’ll have opportunities to learn them in college.