Software recommendations

[u/fatimalizade]

Hi everyone, I’m currently doing my master’s degree in Chemical and Energy Engineering, but my bachelor was in Chemistry, so I didn’t pick up any programming skills in my previous studies, but actually I’ve done some MATLAB courses and learned basics.

Yesterday I had a conversation with one of my group mates and she mentioned that you can’t get a research or software-based job with MATLAB, it’s useless and you have to learn Python instead.

So I’m wondering is it still worth spending time on MATLAB?

[u/AutomaticPianist4308]

“Learning Python” does not take too long. They have online courses about 6-8 hours long that get you through the fundamentals. However if you want to learn it deeper and get a ton of practice in actually applying it I would shoot for either a formal course at your college or also doing a couple of specialized courses on python available on most online course websites.

Learning matlab won’t hurt your general programming skills though. I think matlab is sort of like C/ C++

[u/fatimalizade → u/AutomaticPianist4308]

Thanks!!