Introduction to Matlab

Below are some steps you can take to learn Matlab:

To open Matlab from the terminal:

> matlab &

  1. This short video will show you how to get started with Matlab:  http://www.mathworks.com/demos/matlab/getting-started-with-matlab-video-tutorial.html
  1. Next, read through this tutorial from the University of Dundee and try out all of the commands: http://www.maths.dundee.ac.uk/~ftp/na-reports/MatlabNotes.pdf

These tutorials and many others can be found on the Mathworks page: http://www.mathworks.com/academia/student_center/tutorials/launchpad.html , along with the Matlab User’s Guide: http://www.mathworks.com/help/pdf_doc/matlab/getstart.pdf

  1. This tutorial is an introduction to the Matlab programming environment: MatlabTutorial.m
  1. Next complete this tutorial, which creates some plots using sample data: Matlab_epoch_tutorial.pdf