Maple isn't mandatory for upper-year classes, but I definitely used it in second year to assist with the MATLAB assignments. Or to save me from bothering with an unnecessarily difficult derivative/integral. It's a handy little tool.
Fun fact: If you copy and paste the output of a function in to MATLAB, you can keep it going! So if you're having trouble inputting certain things in MATLAB, you can do it in Maple in an easier-to-read environment and then drop it in for your computations.
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