[DrorY]

Do you teach Matlab specifically? This can be an excellent B'day gift.

[zachgalant]

no, we don't teach matlab. maybe we'll add that in the future.

for now, I think she'd just get a lot out of learning some of the fundamentals of programming rather than diving straight into matlab.

having a grasp of some of the basics will only help her understanding of matlab, and I'd even recommend trying to work on it concurrently.

If she gets started on CodeHS, I guarantee she'll learn a lot and have fun in the process.

[DrorY]

What would be the closet thing to Matlab she could learn in codehs? (Similar syntax similar core concepts)

Do you have any plans of adding Matlab anytime soon?

[zachgalant]

No plans for matlab just yet, but it's on our longer term todo list.

She'd learn these topics:

* Function decomposition

* programming style

* good problem decomposition

* parameters and return values

* control structures (for, while, if)

* Variables and scoping

* boolean logic

* data structures: arrays, maps, grids, dictionaries