On 4 March 2013 17:51, Dan Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been using Sage for about 3 years now. One thing that hit me was when I > got into the 3rd year Electrical Engineering classes, my Matlab usage was > increasing because professors wanted all homework done in Matlab not Sage.
This is not surprising, given what I said about the use of MATLAB in engineering in a post of mine. If you are doing electrical engineering, then undoubtably having MATLAB on your CV is going to be more useful than having Sage on your CV. I'm not a great fan of MATLAB, but there is no doubt it is an industry standard tool. Another bit of software worth knowing for for electronic engineers is Labview. I would not be surprised if you get introduced to that either in an EE course. Octave is an open-source clone of MATLAB, but as much as I am a fan of open-source, and have spent days (weeks) developing Sage, I would say forget about Octave and just learn MATLAB. Get that on your CV Then at a later date if you work for a small company or start up your own and want to remain legal, you might use Octave instead. But get MATLAB on your CV and Labview too if you get the chance. Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
