About This Book
The main purpose of MATLAB For Dummies is to reduce the learning curve that is a natural part of using a product that offers as much as MATLAB does. When you first start MATLAB, you might become instantly overwhelmed by everything you see. This book helps you get past that stage and become productive quickly so that you can get back to performing amazing feats of math wizardry.
In addition, this book is designed to introduce you to techniques that you might not know about oreven consider because you haven’t been exposed to them before. For example, MATLAB
provides a rich plotting environment that not only helps you communicate better, but also makes it
possible to present numeric information in a manner that helps others see your perspective. Using
scripts and functions will also reduce the work you do even further and this book shows you how
to create custom code that you can use to customize the environment to meet your specific needs.
After you’ve successfully installed MATLAB on whatever computer platform you’re using, you
start with the basics and work your way up. By the time you finish working through the examples in this book, you’ll be able to perform a range of simple tasks in MATLAB that includes writing scripts, writing functions, creating plots, and performing advanced equation solving. No, you won’t be an expert, but you will be able to use MATLAB to meet specific needs in the job environment.
To make absorbing the concepts even easier, this book uses the following conventions: Text that you’re meant to type just as it appears in the book is bold. The exception is when you’re working through a step list: Because each step is bold, the text to type is not bold.When you see words in italics as part of a typing sequence, you need to replace that value with something that works for you. For example, if you see “Type Your Name and press Enter,” you need to replace Your Name with your actual name.
Web addresses and programming code appear in mono font. If you’re reading a digital version of this book on a device connected to the Internet, note that you can click the web address to visit that website, like this: http://www.dummies.com. When you need to type command sequences, you see them separated by a special arrow like this: File⇒New File. In this case, you go to the File menu first and then select the New File entry on that menu. The result is that you see a new file created.
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