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Intro to MATLAB Programming Course

This document provides an introduction to a lesson on MATLAB. The lesson is an introductory college course that will be taught over 8 weeks of video lectures by instructors from Vanderbilt University School of Engineering. MATLAB was invented in the late 1970s by Cleve Moler to make programming easier for students. It has since grown to be used by over 1 million users at 5,000 universities. This course aims to teach computer programming concepts using MATLAB to make the topic more accessible.

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Intro to MATLAB Programming Course

This document provides an introduction to a lesson on MATLAB. The lesson is an introductory college course that will be taught over 8 weeks of video lectures by instructors from Vanderbilt University School of Engineering. MATLAB was invented in the late 1970s by Cleve Moler to make programming easier for students. It has since grown to be used by over 1 million users at 5,000 universities. This course aims to teach computer programming concepts using MATLAB to make the topic more accessible.

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Lesson 1: Introduction to MATLAB

by

Akos Ledeczi and Mike Fitzpatrick


 Lead instructor: Mike Fitzpatrick
 Supported by: Akos Ledeczi and Robert Tairas
 Vanderbilt University School of Engineering
 Purpose
◦ To teach computer programming to people who have little
or no experience with programming
 Level
◦ Introductory college course
 Length:
◦ 8 weeks of video lectures
◦ Extra week for final homework submission
 First high-level language: FORTRAN (1954)
◦ To make programming easier, especially to solve
numerical problems
 Today’s languages: 1970s-
◦ For commercial, “shrink-wrapped”, large, complex
programs: C, C++, Java, C#, etc.
◦ To make programming easier and to solve numerical
problems: MATLAB
 Invented by Prof. Cleve Moler to make
programming easy for his students
◦ Late 1970s
◦ University of New Mexico
 The MathWorks, Inc. was formed in1984
◦ By Moler and Jack Little
◦ One product: MATLAB
 Today
◦ 100 products
◦ Over 1,000,000 users
◦ Taught in 5,000 universities
 In 2012 the IEEE gave Cleve Moler its annual
Computer Pioneer Award
◦ “For Improving the quality of mathematical software,
making it more accessible, and creating MATLAB”
 This course is our effort to add to the impact
of Moler’s creation by using it to make
computer programming more accessible to
you.
 We approach MATLAB programming as part
of computer science.
 We use the concepts and vocabulary of
computer science to introduce computer
programming.
 This approach gives an idea of how computer
scientists think...
 and makes it easier to learn MATLAB!
 www.mathworks.com
 Paying for MATLAB
◦ Student: $50
◦ MATLAB instructor: Free!
◦ Companies: $100s per user
 Trying MATLAB for free
◦ For everybody: 30 days
◦ For students in this course: free for12 weeks!
 How to get it? Visit class website for info.
 eBook
 Title and authors:
same as the course!
 Recommended, but not
required.
 Current version used at
Vanderbilt since 2013
 Previous versions used at
Vanderbilt since 2000
J. Michael Fitzpatrick
and Ákos Lédeczi
 Both Apple (iBook for
iPad and Mac) and PDF
versions are available for
$9.99 at
◦ cs103.net
 Three main chapters
◦ Chapters 1 and 2 are covered
in this course
◦ The more advanced concepts
in Chapter 3 can be learned
on your own from the book
after completion of this
course J. Michael Fitzpatrick
and Ákos Lédeczi

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