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While at it pick up Julia, another MIT product.

esp for applied math it's invaluable compared with python or matlab.

Juno is a nice ide, it's gotten a lot better over the last two months.



Why is Julia better than MATLAB or Python? Most applied mathematicians I know are in MATLAB all the time.


I mean julia is much younger. The main strengths are that it's open source, it's a much nicer language, you can actually ship things in it (good luck doing that in matlab), package manager, etc etc. Matlab is legit not great.


Ah ok. The reason I like MATLAB is cause I want a “numerical experiment” and I don’t want to have to learn a lot to get it to run


Check julia. Its not unlike matlab.


I've been meaning to invest some time into learning Julia. I'll definitely try my hand soon


The newest iteration of 18.06 [0] is using this textbook [1] that incorporates usage of Julia in a companion book.

[0] https://github.com/mitmath/1806/blob/master/summaries.md

[1] http://vmls-book.stanford.edu/


Wow, I didn't know these resources existed. It's gonna help me a lot as I'm on a similar journey as the OP. Thank you very much, sn9




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