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Originally Posted by iCurtis
Greg,
"Olin textbook" and "free" are words that I like to hear in the same sentence! It certainly looks like a great place to start.
Chris,
Thanks for the offer! My programming experience is also largely self taught, so we'll see how I get by.
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Allen Downey is straight up redonkulous with respect to copy-left/open source. He can honestly claim that he "learned Python by reading the book he wrote". He wrote a java book and open sourced it. Someone downloaded it, rewrote it for Python and sent it back to him. He read it, and learned Python in doing so. Emulating this is high on my list of "Accomplishments that qualify as winning at life", right next to "get interviewed by Terry Gross".
MATLAB is one of my four favorite programming languages, I used it a lot at DEKA. However, I still get snagged on some of its vector/matrix syntax. So, my advice to a MATLAB newbie is to study that part a little harder than the rest, and to not get too frustrated. If it doesn't work, add more periods before operators.