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ES171 2016 - 17 Matlab Unit 4 PART01 Outline

This document outlines a 4-week course on MATLAB as part of a Computer Aided Drafting and Design program. It covers prerequisites, course content including MATLAB environment, matrices, graphing, and programming, as well as resources like lecture notes and reference materials. MATLAB is highlighted as a high-level technical computing language essential for various fields, providing tools for data analysis and visualization.

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ES171 2016 - 17 Matlab Unit 4 PART01 Outline

This document outlines a 4-week course on MATLAB as part of a Computer Aided Drafting and Design program. It covers prerequisites, course content including MATLAB environment, matrices, graphing, and programming, as well as resources like lecture notes and reference materials. MATLAB is highlighted as a high-level technical computing language essential for various fields, providing tools for data analysis and visualization.

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ES171 2016/17

Computer Aided Drafting and


Design (CADD)

Unit IV: Introduction to


MATLAB
(4 weeks)
Part 01: Outline
MATLAB
The Language of Technical
Computing

Mathworks
Prerequisites
 Basic computer skills (covered in Unit I)
AND Basic programming skills (to be
covered in CS174 (Programming in C)
 Basic mathematics knowledge especially
Matrices
Unit Outline
 Getting started with MATLAB
 Introduction to MATLAB Environment
 Matrices, Polynomials, and Introduction to
M-files
 Introduction to MATLAB Graphing
 Introduction to Programming in MATLAB
Lecture notes
UDSM learning Management System (LMS)
http://lms.udsm.ac.tz/
(check if it is possible to create a course in
Moodle)
 Tutorials and Announcements
 Login info: To be provided by your
instructors
Documents
 pdf (portable document format)
format will be used for lecture notes
and Tutorials.
 Acrobat reader can be downloaded
from www.adobe.com
 Softcopy of examples files will be
provided with lecture notes
 Practice is crucial!!!
Software
 Matlab is already installed in computers
which you will be using in the Lab.
 Version R2015B will be used
Reference Materials
 Introduction to Matlab - Version 3.1 by
David F. Griffiths, The University of Dundee,
Scotland, UK, March 2015 (pdf file to be
provided)

 Matlab getting started - Matlab Primer


2016B.pdf– From mathworks – (pdf file to be
provided)
 On-line Help and DEMOS within Matlab
software (Details later)

Reference Book
 Hanselman and Littlefield, "Mastering

MATLAB", Pearson, 2012. ISBN-13: 978-


0136013303
Useful Links
 http://www.mathworks.com Mathworks website -
For information on MATLAB
 http://
www.mathworks.com/support/books/index.html
 Matlab books list from Mathworks website
arranged according to subjects
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATLAB Wikipedia -
for Matlab intro and versions
MATLAB Overview - 1
 MATLAB => MATrix LABoratory

 MATLAB is a high-level technical computing


language and interactive environment for
algorithm development, data visualization,
data analysis, and numeric computation.

 Commercialized in 1984 by The Mathworks


company (http://www.mathworks.com)
MATLAB Overview - 2
 The MATLAB language supports the vector
and matrix operations that are fundamental
to engineering and scientific problems. It
enables fast development and execution.
 Analysis in science and engineering

 Flexibility in various fields (mathematics,

physics, medicine, finance)


 Used in academia – standard instructional

tool
 Used in industry – high productivity tool

for research and development


MATLAB Overview - 3
MATLAB supports the entire data analysis process,
from acquiring data from external devices and
databases, through pre-processing, visualization, and
numerical analysis, to producing presentation-quality
output.
Toolboxes
 Features a family of application-specific solutions
 Comprehensive collections of MATLAB functions
that extend the MATLAB environment to solve
particular classes of problems.
 Toolboxes are installed during installation process
MATLAB Overview - 4
MATLAB Versions:
5 (R12),
6 (R13) ,
Matlab 7:
(R14), R2006a, R2006b, R2007a, R2007b, R2008a,
R2008b, ... R2012a.
Matlab 8:
R2012b, R2013a, ….. R2015b, R2016a, R2016b
Note: Latest version (Nov 2016) is R2016b
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATLAB for Matlab
Release history – in the section labelled Release
history
== END ==

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