I am first year mechanical engineering student. I am interested in software, is MATLAB useful for me

I am first year mechanical engineering student. I am interested in software, is MATLAB useful for me?

[madhan ravi]

Ofcourse

[Sajeer Modavan]

Matlab is different from most of the softwares, bcz you won't learn baground physics if you use most of the softwares other than computer language softwares. Matlab having lot of libraries, so its very easy to work, but it is slower compared computer languages. So, I recommend matlab