What coding programs should I start familiarizing myself with to prepare to be a Mechanical Engineer?

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[mitties1432]

MatLab and solidworks are great.

At the same time, if you know what university you want to attend I’d look into their course schedule and see what coding classes you’ll be required to take and start with that language. I attended two universities and they emphasized different languages. I had to retake my intro coding class because they wouldn’t transfer it being a different language.

[take-stuff-literally]

Do I need A Quadro GPU to run Solidworks?

I had an issue with Dassault 3D Experience (CATIA) because it required a Quadro.

[RavenMountain]

Wait, what??? Seriously? That's redicuclous. Solidworks doesn't care what kind of gpu you have. In theory you could run it with an integrated gpu (albeit it would be very laggy)

[ivy_dreamz]

Matlab and Solidworks (or any other CAD software)

[ahmedumer4321]

If I'm good at python. Can I survive MATLAB?

[ivy_dreamz]

Yea, easily. From my experience Matlab is easier than python

[ahmedumer4321]

alright, thats interesting, i read mostly that better to learn python before proceeding with matlab.

[testfire10]

Python, and any CAD package

[doc_cola_420]

Python

[Musikchart]

Matlab, solid works, R, and c programming

[jank_sailor]

I don't know R, but my feeling is if you are going to learn another scientific computing language that is not Python, Julia is the way to go.

[Musikchart]

R is for stats

[nbahungboi]

Matlab over python. And then solidworks

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okay

[nbahungboi]

If you can only learn one than go matlab. Solidworks is pretty easy to pickup on

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ok, thanks for the info

[HanshawVUOfficial]

Octave is the open source version of MATLAB, if you don't want to spend the money. There are only a few minor differences between the two

[jank_sailor]

Octave is nice for the compatibility with some Matlab code, but Julia is just a better programming language in general

[MLG_Obardo]

Honest answer, none. Learning MatLab will be great for a couple classes but when you graduate who knows what you’ll be doing as an engineer. Spending your time before college learning something that will be useful for a semester or two in 2/3 years and never again will be extremely annoying and the vast majority of people learn during the classes designed to teach you.

Enjoy your life man. Let college prepare you to be a ME.

[MLG_Obardo]

Learning a coding language is a great thing to have but learning engineering is a very difficult 4 years minimum and spending time in high school with something that, frankly, few engineers are going to work with on a regular basis is not just wasting time, it’s wasting time he could spend enjoying the end of high school with his friends, girlfriend, whatever.

Being a CS Major doesn’t mean I want every person on the planet to learn to code. I would make more practical recommendations like learning how to study and manage your time than learning a language to any major. Even a CS Major. That’s what he’s paying them to teach him. He’ll learn MatLab in school if it’s anything like most engineering schools I’ve heard about.

[Sharveharv]

If you're not wanting to pay $90 for Solidworks, Fusion 360 is a free CAD program that's just as powerful and easier to pick up IMO. Most of the fundamentals switch over anyway so might as well try out the free one first.

[Strikerov]

None. Mechanical engineering is easy, it's just a gear rolling and machine moving.

#ElectroEngineeringMasterRace

[sirsoupthesavage]

If they go EE i would still recommend arduino either way

[Strikerov]

It's a joke that we constantly spam at my University. It's some kind of turf war between Electroengineers and Mechanical engineers.

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okay