So for a few years I've noticed there was a program called Matlab which was used in data analysis, but I always kind of shied away from it because well its programming. I seen it offered free though (a 9 week program) which only takes up a few minutes (literally many videos are broken down into 5-20 minute segments) and I can cover two weeks in about 2 hours. Since I started a temp job, and we were experiencing some issues with excel, I figured that maybe finding out more about programming might be useful in the future. I find that I spend a lot of time on non-instructional things (blabbing here mostly) and I was thinking instead of yapping, maybe I could learn something which takes up very little time and is free. It's a slick little program that so far I've learned how to do some simple commands which will do math for me! Like calculating how many seconds it takes for the light of the moon to reach the earth (its 1.28 seconds) in case you were wondering. Just another bit of a disclaimer: Namely so I don't get some person writing and saying 'why are you writing this' its because this is a general discussion and everyday chit chat thread and I can't be the only person on the planet who might enjoy learning such stuff.