why did they buy licenses? I'm curious how this happened. At some point Matlab must have convinced ppl it was hot.
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easy for prototyping (as was noted) and heavily used for teaching in engineering and comp sci 1/2
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ppl w/o strong coding skills could learn fast and it was easy to distribute b/c no platform dependencies 2/2
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most people that I know in psych so use it have barely a grasp of what a for loop is exactly because Matlab looks
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like Excel so they just edit stuff manually, never learning to code for real...
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true - the GUI part of matlab has dumbed down things a bit too much. But IMHO, given a good mentor/prof it can be a valuable teaching tool
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e.g., teaching matrix ops in multivariate stats and vector operations instead of loops are two that come to mind.
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Have to balance between learning the language vs the concepts, but all of our stuff is going python now anyway
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