Crash Course in MATLAB

Introduction
	The fifty-cent tour
	Graphical versus command-line usage
	Help
	Basic commands and syntax
	Saving work
	Exercises
Arrays and matrices
	Building arrays
	Referencing elements
	Matrix operations
	Array operations
	Sparse matrices
	Exercises
Scripts and functions
	Using scripts effectively
	Functions
	Conditionals: if and switch
	Loops: for and while
	Debugging and profiling
	Exercises
More on functions
	Subfunctions and nested functions
	Inline and anonymous functions
	Function functions
	Errors and warnings
	Exercises
Graphics
	2D plots
	3D plots
	Annotation
	Auto function plots
	Handles and properties
	Color
	Saving figures
	Graphics for publication
	Exercises
Speed, style, and trickery
	Functions or scripts?
	Memory preallocation
	Vectorization
	Masking
	Scoping exceptions
	Exercises
Advanced data structures
	Strings
		Formatted output
	Cell arrays
	Structures
Scientific computing
	Linear algebra
	Iterative linear algebra
	Rootfinding
	Optimization
	Fitting data
	Quadrature
	Initial-value problems
	Boundary-value problems
	Initial-boundary value problems
Graphical user interfaces
	GUI programming style
	Using guide for layout
	Creating callbacks
	An example
Object-oriented programming
	OOP in MATLAB
	An OOP example
	Exercises
Linking to FORTRAN or C
	How MEX files work
	Examples and outline