(am I reading your name right as "Gkest"?)
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My surname is Guest if that is what you want to know.
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i think there might be a typo in the greek portion then :)
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I'm a native Greek speaker. I'm a Cypriot.

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If you don't know not to spell in Greek, I can totally teach you. Νο πρόμπλεμ, κουμπάρε.
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G in Greek is a dipthong, γκ or γγ. For foreign words it's always γκ.
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An example of γγ is άγγελος (masculine noun) angle. Pronounced kind of like ah-geh-loh-s or if you have a Cypriot accent kind of like Anne(like the name)-geh-los.
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Angel not angle. I have a migraine this might not be the best time.

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I like this, but a lot of researchers hate the idea of learning to code. MATLAB is "there" for those who want to dip their toes in
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I'm hoping that all undergraduates are taught to code
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so do I. And taught well. I was taught a crap course in MATLAB that put me off for a bit haha

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I'm sure my post finds some resonance with you then.
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if any language is taught crap, people gonna hate. Courses need to be easy to follow, not "we teach it because it's hard" mentality
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that's not my point and python is easy
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To reiterate my points against Matlab are NOT easy=bad: Matlab doesn't give transferable skills and it's not open science.

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You said "nothing, at least superficially, seems hard..." You mean: it seems easy, but actually not because no transferable skills?
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And I just learned that Matlab added the ability to have functions with scripts in the 2016b release: see https://uk.mathworks.com/products/matlab/whatsnew.html …
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now a Matlab pgm (a script) can define the fxns it calls at end of the script. Before each fxn had to be a separate file.
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ah right — I guess that's good!
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yep one major annoyance (which you blogged about) has been removed. Still no zero indexed arrays though

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for me personally the worst thing is the crutches provided by the IDE — something that I doubt will ever be removed.
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It's literally a feature even though I believe it is anti-pedagogical.

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also as Raniere pointed out they have now introduced a bug-attractor:https://twitter.com/rgaiacs/status/844953596517081093 …
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