I recently applied for an internship this summer with the Applied Physics Lab and the Goddard Space Center; while filling out my application I noticed a lot of the projects that I am gravitating towards require atleast some knowledge with MATLAB, FORTRAN, and/or IDL. I just downloaded the student version of MATLAB because, well, I have poor impulse control. My question is, do any of you have any experience with MATLAB, and if so, how easy is it to learn? I have some experience with Java but I never really got too deep into it.
Any Experience with Matlab?
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First off, congrats! Physics internships are notoriously hard to get in my experience.
I've not used MATLAB much, I solve most of my problems with Mathematica or Maple, however I've started using it for my dissertation. As far as I can tell, if you've got any experience with C based programming Matlab is not hard to pick up. And (Huzzah!) there's plenty of tutorials for C and Matlab on the web, so put a little work in and you'll be gold.
I've not used MATLAB much, I solve most of my problems with Mathematica or Maple, however I've started using it for my dissertation. As far as I can tell, if you've got any experience with C based programming Matlab is not hard to pick up. And (Huzzah!) there's plenty of tutorials for C and Matlab on the web, so put a little work in and you'll be gold.
Thanks, I am very excited for this opportunity. I think if the director of the institution you are applying to is also your modern physics professor, it helps.Zantos said:
I've only ever really just toyed a bit with matlab, and had a quick look at fortran, but if you can learn to program fortran really really well there's quite a lot of money to be made, though it is from the sixties and it shows in the syntax, so try and have fun with that.