I don’t really want to go in depth into programming, I just want to know what I’m looking at if I ever come across anything like that at my job (mechanical engineering) and maybe solve some simple problems.
I learned C and Java in my first year in college, but it’s all mostly forgotten. I’m leaning towards Python since I read it’s relatively simple and used a lot nowadays, and it’s what my teachers used later on in college anyway.
What do you guys think?
Thanks in advance!
You should learn the basics of VBA, as much as I despise this language, I can tell you as a mechanical engineer myself, that you will stumble over countless excel sheets with VBA from your colleges and it’s good to have at least a rough understanding of what they did. Also it’s unfortunately the automation/macro language of many CAD-Systems (Catia, SolidWorks, Inventor,… to name just a few). Python with jupyter notebooks or julia with weave are also worth taking a look into it. They a both pretty good for calculations + documentation and drawing nice graphs. That’s what most of my collegues do in excel with VBA, but it’s much nicer to do in the two mentioned before.
This feels like the best answer so far, there’s nothing better than experience huh. Thanks a lot.