I have taught computer applications course for engineers in the mechanical and civil engineering departments at Florida Atlantic University for many years. I first started teaching the course using the Fortran language. Some years later, the department switched to the CC++ language. More recently, the course has been taught using MATLAB. The advantage of using MATLAB over many other programming languages is that MATLAB contains functions that enable the user to solve various mathematical problems, such as interpolation, roots of algebraic equations, the relative minimum and maximum of a function, a system of linear algebraic equations, curve-fitting problems, definite integrals, a system of ordinary differential equations, and many others, some of which require special tool boxes at an extra cost. There are also programming techniques available in MATLAB but not available in either Fortran or CC++.