replacing Matlab with python

Question

i am a engineering student and i have to do a lot of numerical processing, plots, simulations etc. The tool that i use currently is Matlab. I use it in my university compute

Answer 1

python(x,y) is quite powerful, but only for Windows or Linux so you'll have to use bootcamp or Linux. A more lightweight package for mathematics is Matplotlib, which basically adds plotting abilities to the Python language (better used together with IPython).