I'm a complete Mathematica n00b. Advise? [Calculus 3 questions]

[Tajin]

3.- Plot[Function[n, n!/(1 + 2 n)!!][x], {x, 0, 50}]

[Mojo]

Do people in industry actually use Mathematica? I was made to learn Maple when I took calc and have not even heard the software referenced since then. Impressively useless waste of time.

Maple was nice for solving calculus problems although I don't know if it had non-acedemic purposes. Mathematica and Matlab are used for data reduction/analysis/rapid application development and sometimes integrated into the pipeline of real time controllers. Assuming many other uses too.

[Byrthnoth]

Yeah, I use MATLAB all the time. I'd just never heard of Maple (or Mathematica, for that matter) being used outside of Calc classes.

[Osede]

anything can be program by those, you can do it in C/C++/C# or java anyways lol

[BerenTebogo]

Mathematica and Matlab are incredibly useful and powerful computational tools.

And your professor is a douchebag.

[Vandole]

He gave me a 50 because i didnt use listplot.

[Tajin]

lol, my bad I guess, there's a bunch of new (considering I havent touched mathematica since like ver. 3 ) functions. Still a major asshole, considering a) the job gets done and b) its not a mathematica course.

[Vandole]

When I argued with him that it got the job done, he packed his things and walked out of the room.

[Deadgye]

If mathematica mentioned on the course description or the syllabus? I really, really, want it to not be on there for you so you can use it against him.

[Seraph]

When I argued with him that it got the job done, he packed his things and walked out of the room.

Hey, you learned a valuable lesson that wasn't even on the syllabus. Many times, people in positions of authority are huge assholes for no particular reason. Not everything you learn in school is in the book...

[AidenCarby]

File grievance.

[Mojo]

Academics in particular have a way of learning how to use computers once and then thinking that's the only way.