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ValeryOchkov24-Ruby IV
24-Ruby IV
May 15, 2021 6:14 AM UTC
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Mathcad vs Python

Would you like to compare Mathcad & Python?

Read please in attach Reviewer Questionnaire

of the future book "STEM Problems with Mathcad & Python"

Your comments?

 

  

9 replies

Werner_E
Werner_E25-Diamond I
25-Diamond I
May 21, 2021 10:18 PM UTC

> Would you like to compare Mathcad & Python?

No! They are just two too different kind of beasts! Python is very versatile widely spread and used open programming language with a lot of very useful libraries available, while Mathcad is a dying closed proprietary program used by an ever-shrinking minority. And I say this even though I really love Mathcad (the real one, not Prime , of course).

But you may like to compare MatLab and Python if you feel so 😉

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    JXBWk14-Alexandrite
    14-Alexandrite
    May 24, 2021 6:08 AM UTC

    Why would you want to compare them? The best software is the one you know best! Granted Python is not a software as such. These are different things as pointed out by @Werner_E
    While I could see some simple examples say solving the dynamic response of a SDoF ie a simple Differential equation solving as both tools have “built-in” function I am struggling to see where is the added value of such proposed book

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    ValeryOchkov24-Ruby IVAuthor
    24-Ruby IV
    May 25, 2021 6:38 AM UTC

    The problem needs to be solved like this!
    First, you need to solve it with Mathcad, and then translate this solution into languages Python, MATLAB, C etc.

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      ValeryOchkov24-Ruby IVAuthor
      24-Ruby IV
      Sep 13, 2022 6:19 PM UTC

      The book is ready

      STEM Problems with Mathcad and Python - 1st Edition - Valery Ochkov - (routledge.com)

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        KevinFinity12-Amethyst
        12-Amethyst
        Sep 13, 2022 9:00 PM UTC

        I am actually just beginning to learn Python now, but when I was first exposed to MathCAD, I fell in love. Suddenly, I didn't need to hand-calculate or re-calculate by hand anything anymore, and I didn't have to squint my eyes at an Excel input box to make sure my parentheses and cell references were correct. I found so much joy in using MathCAD and figuring out all of its features. Is Python better? Maybe if it can display human-readable math the way MathCAD can, and do all of the calculation features such as solver? For procedural things like crunching databases, perhaps code is better, but for what I do, which is structural engineering, I need my equations to look like the building code equations and I need it to be readable by senior engineers who don't know programming language.

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          KevinFinity12-Amethyst
          12-Amethyst
          Sep 13, 2022 9:01 PM UTC

          PS, Valery I think it is so cool that you wrote a book on this topic. 

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          ValeryOchkov24-Ruby IVAuthor
          24-Ruby IV
          Sep 14, 2022 5:56 AM UTC

          Thanks,

          One of the main goals of this book is to show the advantage of Mathcad over traditional programming languages.

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          ValeryOchkov24-Ruby IVAuthor
          24-Ruby IV
          Oct 4, 2022 6:20 PM UTC

          The book is due out December 9, 2022.
          But there was a leak in the publishing house and the book appeared on pirate sites on September 9, 2022.

          See and read free please 😞

          STEM Problems with Mathcad and Python — Яндекс: нашёлся 1 млн результатов (yandex.ru)

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