MATLAB to Mathematica: An Engineering Student's Perspective

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UCSB electrical and computer engineering graduate student Justin Pearson shows how engineering equations can be both simplified and physically insightful using the Wolfram Language as compared to procedures in MATLAB.

[tatendablessing]

i dont have extensive experience with either , im a newbee BUT seeing that this is coming from Wolfrum, i find myself asking if its a balanced view

[verystablegenius]

well I used both for many years and just implemented SLLG in Mathematica .. It is true that there are certain things that are simpler in the Wolfram Language, but calling MATLAB's output "a bunch of numbers" is a crime. It's far easier to learn how to plot in MATLAB .. You have to "Riffle" and "Transpose" and do smart things even to plot a simple List as a function of another input vector. That being said, I love WL.

[Maxisokol]

It's always a tradeoff between how easy it is and how much control you have over what the program is doing.
P.S. Assembly for life!

[stephenmaharaj]

Thanks for the video. I agree. Without the digression of an additional coding step, it does make it easier to go from a mathematical equation or statistical concept directly to the (petroleum) engineering application. This allows me to spend more time on the assumptions and validation of the model/equations.

Although if I was a student at UCSB, I would prefer to spend that much more time on the beach.

[locallyringedspace]

The fact the functions in Matlab are individual files was always something that seems totally unnecessary and encourages bad programming habits. I don't know enough about the internals of the language to see why this 'feature' is present but it certainly dates the product a lot. No modern programming language should have such limitations.

[prashkd]

rather then learning new languages to meet requirements of current engineering curriculum I think we should be reinventing our engineering coursework to align them with the new digital world.

[barrelbombfactory]

Alright stop pointing the gu-n at him from behind the camera

[blackcohn]

says the guy who got a job at Mathematica

[chrischoir]

All these programs were poorly thought out. Matlab, MathCAD, Maple, Mathematica all sukk