Buying student versions of software

Montegut
Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:27:25 +0000

Son learned Fortran as part of an honors program that is open to all majors. It’s a way to introduce the kids to programming, even those not of the technical bent.

He learned Matlab as part of a high school enrichment program.

Correct, it was SQL. The major project, second semester of the honors program, involved C++.

SolidWorks was taught in his freshman engineering class.

Don’t discount old languages like Fortran too quickly. My computer science/systems analyst/programmer husband was unemployed after the oil crunch, and his knowledge of the obsolete Cobalt landed him a job that has led to a very good career. He no longer uses Cobalt in the job, but that knowledge got his foot in the door.

Wondering if purchasing student version of SolidWorks and ProEngineering would be redundant. Definitely getting the student version of SolidWorks so he doesn’t have to go to the lab to work on his project, but wondering if it would be worth getting the student version of ProEngineering would help him interface with his professor, who has ProEngineering on his computer, more easily.