Matlab Crash Course, October 2015
Dr Ásgeir Birkisson (birkisson@maths.ox.ac.uk)
Mohsin Javed (javed@maths.ox.ac.uk)
Course website: http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/birkisson/matlab/
Objectives
The objective of this course is to give an introduction to Matlab and the essentials of
Matlab programming. This course consists of around five hours of practical sessions
and three hours of lectures. The best way to learn the software is using it. There
will be no grades, and no such thing as a stupid question.
Useful references
D.J. Higham and N.J. Higham, MATLAB guide, SIAM, 2005.
T.A. Driscoll, Learning MATLAB, SIAM, 2009.
C.B. Moler, Numerical computing with MATLAB, SIAM, 2006.
(freely available online: http://www.mathworks.com/moler/ )
Matlab documentation: doc from the command window or help method .
Matlab Cody: https://www.mathworks.co.uk/matlabcentral/cody/
Matlab installation instructions
As a student at Oxford you’re entitled to a free copy for your personal machine. Follow the instructions here: https://register.oucs.ox.ac.uk/self/index/ (click the
Software link on the left menu).
(Basically register an account account at www.mathworks.com using your @ox.ac.uk
email address. Please ask if you need help with this!).
Tentative timetable:
Monday, October 5th
Room
L4
L4
L4
L4
Time
11:00 – 12:00
12:00 – 12:30
13:30 – 14:30
14:30 – 17:00
Topic
Introduction, first steps, and matrices
Practical 0
Theory: Scripts, logic, & control structures
Practical 1 (with a 30min tea break at 15:00)
Tuesday, October 6th
L4
L4
L4
L4
09:00
09:45
14:00
15:30
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09:45 Theory: Functions & programming
10:30 Practical 2
15:00 Theory: Built-ins & graphics, publish
17:00 Practical 3