Mathcad vs Python

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May 15, 2021
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Would you like to compare Mathcad & Python?

Read please in attach Reviewer Questionnaire

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

Your comments?

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Werner_E

25-Diamond I

> 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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JXBWk

14-Alexandrite

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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ValeryOchkov

Author

24-Ruby IV

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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ValeryOchkov

Author

24-Ruby IV

The book is ready

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

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KevinFinity

12-Amethyst

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.