Command Line Programming with Matlab

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Command Line Programming with Matlab

• Welcome to ITs seminar on Matlab
• Sam Gordji, ccsam_at_olemiss.edu
• Weir 107

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General Information

• Questions will be answered during the seminar
• What is Matlab?
• Matlab does mathematical operations
• Its competitors are Mathematica, Maple, and
  others
• Matlab is available on willow and sweetgum

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General Information

• Email contact
• Email your questions to
• assist_at_olemiss.edu
• Any user with an account on willow or sweetgum
  may access Matlab
• Please fill out the performance report and leave
  your email address so we may contact you for
  follow up questions

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Introduction

• Matlab is a very powerful and user friendly
  package that most students from many disciplines
  may use
• Programming with Matlab is simple
• To activate Matlab in willow or sweetgum enter
  matlab
• The University has a few modules of Matlab to
  find out about various Toolboxes enter ver
  while Matlab is activated, enter version to
  obtain the version

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Introduction

• A good place to start on Matlab
• http//mathworks.com
• Mathlab is flexible and mostly uses familiar
  mathematical and engineering notations

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Introduction

• Matlabs main function is to perform Mathematical
  operations, Matlab may be called by other
  programs
• Matlab is the only package of its kind that
  creates executables

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Todays Topic

• Intro. to Matlab (Command Line)
• Activate Matlab on willow
• Perform simple operation
• Use of m files
• Examples of Matlab (test0.m)
• Creating graphs test03.m (.jpg) files with
  Matlab
• Saving output (test4.m) with Matlab