What programing language shoould I learm. Civil Engineering major.

[gstein]

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@aibarr

It is so a programming language, Mister Smarty Pants, and you absolutely won’t get laughed at. It’s a mathematical analysis platform <em>and</em> a programming language, and you can write code in MATLAB (which is specific to MATLAB, so it’s not like you’re using some other language within the program, even) to solve complex mathematical problems. MATLAB’s programming language is a lot like C. In grad school, I had to write a finite element analysis engine in MATLAB.

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<p>I’m not denying MATLAB’s power, heck I’ve used it to write classes – it is a phenomenal tool. But by standard conventions, it is not a programming language, and I amongst others have been laughed at for citing so.</p>