MATLAB at the undergrad level (Score 2, Informative)

The chair of the physics department here at Augusta State University is definitely all for we physics majors graduating here with plently of MATLAB experience. Several months ago, I overhead him commenting how he was disappointed with the lack of programming skills with the majority of the majors. So now, MATLAB is a staple of the computational physics and electronics II courses. Prior to this change, I, myself, had very little experience with programming. But I got on to a research project this past March and had to learn MATLAB very quickly. Now, two months later, I`m working everyday with MATLAB on an Ising Model program. Needless to say, from an undergraduate stand-point, it seems that the need to code and implement algorithms will be of vital importance to future physicists.