A GUIDE TO MATLAB FOR BEGINNERS AND EXPERIENCED USERS by Brian R. Hunt, Ronald L. Lipsman, Jonathan M. Rosenberg with Kevin R. Coombes, John E. Osborn, Garret J. Stuck, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Price: $95.00, Hardback, ISBN 0-521-80380-2, Price: $34.95, Paperback. ISBN 0-521-00859-X
✍ Scribed by Antony J. Wilkinson
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 55 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-3370
- DOI
- 10.1002/jnm.477
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✦ Synopsis
MATLAB is a sophisticated program containing many features and options. The authors in writing this guide believe that although Mathworks documentation and online help are very comprehensive the number and variety of commands described can be overwhelming to the user. They believe that there is a need for a guide to help identify which commands are important in order to start using MATLAB quickly and efficiently.
This guide describes the function of MATLAB 6 but the authors do point out that most of its content is equally relevant to the earlier version.
The guide contains 11 Chapters, 3 Practice Set sections, a Practice Set solution section and a Glossary that describes the most common operators, constants, built-in functions, MA-TLAB commands, graphical commands and programming statements. The core part of the guide is the 5 Chapters which will enable anyone to turn on MATLAB and to productively solve problems. These 5 Chapters in only 90 pages cover:
* How to start MATLAB; * a quick tour of the user interface; * how to interact with the user interface; * what functions and M-files are; * how to use graphics to display results.