>the introductory course for most engineers (1371) which is taught in Matlab .

A fair point of warning is that, having been at Georgia Tech 2008-2011, most of my friends in engineering and physics freshman year hated CS 1371, and spent many a late weeknight complaining about Matlab. The common wisdom, often picked up too late, was that engineering students would have a better time if they switched into the Python course, iirc CS 1301.

For my part, I had placed out with AP credit, but took CS 2110 using a combination of LogicWorks (circuits), LC-3 assembler and C. I thought it was awesome; that course is probably the reason I have my current job, but many of my friends never considered taking another CS course, or only did so several years later, because they hated Matlab so much.