MATLAB instruction initiative
We envision two components: 1) a crash course in MATLAB taught at the start of each term, and 2) creating interactive online content as modules.
Matlab evening course, perhaps eventually taught in Jan term:
Modules:
| Topic | matlab functions | typical examples | lead person |
|---|---|---|---|
| data structures: 1-d arrays, indices | |||
| data structures: 2-d and n-dimensional arrays | |||
| arithmetic and functions on arrays | |||
| strings in Matlab | |||
| simple plots | plot(), hist(), scatter3(), surf(), contour() | ||
| simple fitting | command line fits, interactive fitting | ||
| complex fitting | cftool() | ||
| numerical integration and differentiation | diff(), trapz() cumsum() | ||
| descriptive statistics | |||
| model fitting and interpreting residuals | |||
| writing scripts | |||
| writing functions | |||