<p>torrent is your answer to everything...who the hell buys matlab?</p>
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<p>The university.</p>
<p>And you, as a student. It's a hundred bucks. That's less than most textbooks. Treat it like a textbook.</p>
<p>actually, now that i think about it, it DOES cost less than textbooks. </p>
<p>but instead of starting to think matlab is cheap, im starting to think these textbooks have overblown prices on them now.</p>
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<p>Just <em>now</em>, you're realizing this? ;)</p>
<p>GNU Octave. Same as MATLAB, but free</p>
<p>Honestly matlab isn't that bad. You will get the hang of it pretty easily as long as you do the homework (at least from my experiences). Don't worry about it and enjoy your time off before you start the engineering grind.</p>
<p>Rushing to grow up are we?</p>
<p>"Another one bites the dust..."</p>
<p>At my school we had a class on Matlab first semester of freshman year. Have you checked to see if you do?</p>
<p>^My school has a class on MATLAB too. It's a requirement for M E's, and I'm taking it next semester (3rd semester).</p>
<p>what do you use matlab for in your class? A real programming class or numerical methods?</p>
<p>^I'm not really sure about that. The textbook we use is called Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists.</p>
<p>Here is the "timeline":
• Introduction and Fundamentals (Chapters 1,2) Week 1-3 (Jan 14-Jan 28)
• Program Design and Advanced Operators (Chapters 3-5): Week 4-5 (Feb 4 -Feb 11)
• Working with Matrices (Chapter 6 ): Week 6 and Part of Week 7 (Feb 18-Feb 25)
• Using Graphics (Chapter 7 ): Part of Week 7 and Week 8 (Feb 25-Mar 3)
• More Programming Tricks(Chapter 8,9): Week 9(Mar 17)
• Using M-files(Chapter 10): Week 10 (Mar 24)
• Using MATLAB Arrays(Chapter 11): Week 11 (Mar 31)
• Building GUIs(Chapter 12-13): Week 12-13 (Apr 7 -Apr 14)
• Applications(Chapter 14-15): Week 14-15 (Apr 21 -Apr 28)</p>
<p>I'm not really sure what any of this means, but it looks like its for numerical methods? I don't know.</p>
<p>no...I don't think your class is numerical methods. My course outline looked more like this</p>
<p>I did not have to take any programming classes for my major (chemE), but did have to take a class in MATLAB. From what I understand, unlike other programming languages, MATLAB's programming code can't used outside MATLAB. In my MATLAB class, we learned the basics of MATLAB and uses as a numerical solver, then learned how to write a MATLAB program, and then learned specifics examples of engineering problems that can be solved by writing a MATLAB program. Overall, it was pretty useless, as I've never used MATLAB other than a numerical solver in my engineering classes. </p>
<p>MATLAB is not hard to learn, even if you are a beginner. Don't waste your summer with it.</p>
<p>I am very new to Matlab. However as part of my work, I have to modify an already written Matlab code. This code has few comment statements to aid the comprehension of someone else. Variables used within the code are not clearly defined. Besides I am new to matlab. How do I go around this problem?
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<p>Niu,</p>
<p>Without seeing the actual code there isn't much we can do.</p>
<p>Variables are typically define as </p>
<p>"string/character" = whatever;</p>