It’s a great idea for students to get acquainted with programming that is used in the professional world. It is a skill you can add to your resume. Employers will know that you are easily adaptable to new programming and that bringing you onboard to their team will prove you are a good fit.
Good thing all students, faculty and staff have access to MATLAB, a high-performance language for technical computing and programming platform, at no charge. According to Mathworks, creator of MATLAB, 82% of Fortune 100 companies use the software, so if you start using it as a student now, there is a good chance you’ll see it again later in your career.
MATLAB is the easiest and most productive programming platform that is trusted and used by millions of engineers and scientists. It combines a high-level language with a desktop environment tuned for iterative engineering and scientific workflows. It includes the Live Editor for creating scripts that combine code, output, and formatted text in an executable notebook. So, whether you’re analyzing data, developing algorithms, or creating models, MATLAB is designed for the way you think and the work you do.
The language, tools, and built-in math functions enable you to explore multiple approaches and reach a solution faster than with spreadsheets or traditional programming languages, such as C/C++ or Java. MATLAB knows that it is important that your work is scalable, and luckily with MATLAB you can scale your analyses to run on clusters, GPUs, and clouds with only minor code changes. This means that there is no need to rewrite your code or learn big data programming and out-of-memory techniques.
To start using the software, visit the MATLAB webpage on the DOIT Services site.
Chantal Lesley is a marketing and communications specialist student employee in the IT Marketing and Communications office.
