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by zachgalant 4882 days ago
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.

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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?

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