OVERVIEW

There are many approaches to teaching the basics of MATLAB. This book will introduce MATLAB through a C programmer's point of view. In this way, the transition from the first half of the book (learning C/ C++ programming) to the second half of the book (understanding MATLAB programming) will be much easier.

Like C/C++ and other programming languages, MATLAB, has arithmetic, logical, conditional, and looping operations but with much, much more.

This chapter will introduce MATLAB and explore the following concepts:

MATLAB Environment

• MATLAB Desktop

• Command Window

• Command History Window

• Editor/Debugger

• Workspace

• Current Directory Window

• Array Editor

• Help Window

Developing M-Files

Variable and Constant Name Declaration

Basic Output and Input Statements

• Output Statements

• Input Statements

Operators

• Arithmetic and Assignment Operators

• Relational Operators

• Logical Operators

Conditional Statements

• if-else Statement

• if-elseif Statement

• switch/case Statement

Looping Statements

• for Loop Statement

• while Loop Statement

Scalars, Vectors, and Matrices

• Initialization

• Manipulating Arrays

• Arithmetic Operation

Creating Functions

Plotting

• Basic 2D Plotting

• Axis Command Functions

• Titles and Labels

• Adding Lines to Graphs

• Setting of Line Style and Width

• Basic 3D Plotting

All program listings discussed in this chapter can be found on the CD-ROM.

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