MATLAB Programming

MATLAB is a mathematical software package which can be used for analysing and solving mathematical and engineering problems such as numerical computations, graphs plotting, programming and more. MATLAB treat all the variables in form of scalar , vector or matrices form. For this book of MATLAB Programming, it is aimed to give a new MALAB users have an overview of how to use the basic and intermediate level of MATLAB and of course to keep this free for students who might be using this book for their course. To start off, MATLAB is a scripting language (Note that I didn't mentioned it is programming language) for data analysis, think of it as a super-powered programmable calculator with useful default functions that are built specifically for math applications.

The name MATLAB itself is an abbreviation for "MATrix LABoratory". Originally, it was a simple interactive matrix calculator in early 1980's. Gradually, it evolves into programming language developed by MathWorks. It started out as a matrix programming language where linear algebra programming was simple. It can be run both under interactive sessions and as a batch job. While other programming languages mostly work with numbers one at a time, MATLAB is designed to operate primarily on whole matrices and arrays. All MATLAB variables are multidimensional arrays, no matter what type of data. A matrix is a two-dimensional array often used for linear algebra.

MATLAB are also designed to be equipped with toolboxes. A toolbox is a package of custom functions and/or classes which are generally for a specific topic (such as control system, signal processing or even deep learning).The toolboxes are either provided officially by Mathworks and require a expensive license, others can be downloaded for free from the File Exchange.

Finally, this book assumes that you have access to latest MATLAB version but if you didn't have , no worries. I believe that most of the examples are also can be run using Octave as the later tried to compatible matching the programming syntax of MATLAB (for most of time)

Click this link to try the free version of MATLAB: | Octave-Online.

MATLAB Programming ChaptersEdit

	Chapter 1: MATLAB Introductions .	Fundamentals of MATLAB Basic MATLAB commands Examples of MATLAB Command File Name Types
	Chapter 2: MATLAB Concepts	MATLAB operator Comments
	Chapter 3: Variable Manipulations	Numbers and Booleans Strings Complex Numbers
	Chapter 4: Vector and Matrices	Vector and Matrices Special Matrices Operation on Matrices Operation on Vectors Sparse Matrices
	Chapter 5: Array	Arrays Introduction to array operations Vectors and Basic Vector Operations Mathematics with Vectors and Matrices Struct Arrays Cell Arrays
	Chapter 6: Graphical plotting .	Plot Polar Plot Semilog Loglog Bode Plot Nichols Plot Nyquist Plot
	Chapter 7: Functions .	Portable Functions What is a handle? Using Handles Figure handles Axis handles Other types of handles Inserting Newlines into Plot Labels
	Chapter 8: Advance MATLAB functions .	Numerical Manipulation Reading and writing data files Advanced I/O Object Oriented Programming Applications and Examples Toolboxes and Extensions Order Differential Equations
	Chapter 9: M-Files coding.	Scripts The Input Function Control Flow Loops and Branches Error Messages Inserting Newlines into Disp Warn and Error Debugging M Files
	Chapter 10: GUI Programming MATLAB	GUIDE App Designer GUI to get a file or directory
	Bonus Chapters	Easter Eggs MATLAB Benefits and Caveats History of MATLAB Authors & Contributors Alternatives to MATLAB