Crash Course in MATLAB

✍ Scribed by Tobin A. Driscoll

• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 77
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
The fifty-cent tour
Graphical versus command-line usage
Help
Basic commands and syntax
Saving work
Exercises
Arrays and matrices
Building arrays
Referencing elements
Matrix operations
Array operations
Sparse matrices
Exercises
Scripts and functions
Using scripts effectively
Functions
Conditionals: if and switch
Loops: for and while
Debugging and profiling
Exercises
More on functions
Subfunctions and nested functions
Inline and anonymous functions
Function functions
Errors and warnings
Exercises
Graphics
2D plots
3D plots
Annotation
Auto function plots
Handles and properties
Color
Saving figures
Graphics for publication
Exercises
Speed, style, and trickery
Functions or scripts?
Memory preallocation
Vectorization
Masking
Scoping exceptions
Exercises
Advanced data structures
Strings
Formatted output
Cell arrays
Structures
Scientific computing
Linear algebra
Iterative linear algebra
Rootfinding
Optimization
Fitting data
Quadrature
Initial-value problems
Boundary-value problems
Initial-boundary value problems
Graphical user interfaces
GUI programming style
Using guide for layout
Creating callbacks
An example
Object-oriented programming
OOP in MATLAB
An OOP example
Exercises
Linking to FORTRAN or C
How MEX files work
Examples and outline