MATLAB for Beginners 1

Course overview

Course Example – Importing and Visualizing Gas Prices

Desktop Overview

Import Tool

Workspace Variables

Variable Editor

Saving and Loading Variables

Save and Load

Plots Tab

Plot Tools

Exporting Figures

Entering Commands – videos

Entering Commands

Practice Entering Commands

Storing Data in Variables

Assigning Variables

Create and Modify Variables

Using Built-in Functions and Constants

Built-in Functions and Constants

Use Functions and Constants

Vectors, Matrices, and Arrays

Manually Entering Arrays

Creating Vectors and Matrices

Enter Vectors and Matrices

Creating Evenly-Spaced Vectors

Colon Operator and Linspace

Use Colon Operator and Linspace

Transposing arrays

Transpose

Transpose Vectors and Matrices

Array Creation Functions

Matrix Creation Functions

Use ones, zeros, and rand

Course example – Working with Gas Price Data video

Obtaining Help

Open and Use Function Documentation

Concatenating arrays – videos

Concatenating Arrays

Concatenate Vectors and Matrices

Creating character arrays

Character Arrays and Command Syntax

Create Strings

Creating arrays of strings

Arrays of Strings

Creating Cell Arrays

Indexing into Arrays

Row, Column Indexing

Extract Using an Index

Extracting Multiple Elements

Accessing Multiple Elements

Subset of a Vector and a Matrix

Changing Values in Arrays

Modifying Single and Multiple Elements

Modify Arrays

Course example – Whale Call Model

The Command History

Command History Window and Options

The MATLAB Editor – videos

The MATLAB Editor

Create and edit script

Running a Script – videos

Running a Script

Run Existing Script

Comments – videos

Comments

Code Sections – videos

Code Sections

Publishing Code – videos

Publishing Code

Course Example – Plotting Gas Prices

Prompts and Messages – videos

Text Input and Output

Graphical Input and output

Prompts and Messages Exercises

Flow Control – videos

If-else Construction

switch-case Construction

Flow Control Use

For Loops – videos

for-Loops

For Loops MATLAB

While Loops – videos

while-Loops

Use a While Loop