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Lesson 1: Introduction To MATLAB: Akos Ledeczi and Mike Fitzpatrick

This document provides an introduction to a lesson on MATLAB taught by Mike Fitzpatrick and Akos Ledeczi at Vanderbilt University School of Engineering. The 8-week course is designed for students with little or no programming experience and teaches the MATLAB programming language, which was created by Cleve Moler in the 1970s to make programming easier for numerical problems. Today, MATLAB is used by over 1 million users in universities and companies for a variety of applications.

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Lesson 1: Introduction To MATLAB: Akos Ledeczi and Mike Fitzpatrick

This document provides an introduction to a lesson on MATLAB taught by Mike Fitzpatrick and Akos Ledeczi at Vanderbilt University School of Engineering. The 8-week course is designed for students with little or no programming experience and teaches the MATLAB programming language, which was created by Cleve Moler in the 1970s to make programming easier for numerical problems. Today, MATLAB is used by over 1 million users in universities and companies for a variety of applications.

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Lesson 1: Introduction to MATLAB

by

Akos Ledeczi and Mike Fitzpatrick


 Lead instructor: Mike Fitzpatrick
 Supported by: Akos Ledeczi and Robert Tairas
 Vanderbilt University School of Engineering
 Purpose
◦ To teach computer programming to people who have
little or no experience with programming
 Level
◦ Introductory college course
 Length:
◦ 8 weeks of video lectures
◦ Extra week for final homework submission
 First high-level language: FORTRAN (1954)
◦ To make programming easier, especially to solve
numerical problems
 Today’s languages: 1970s-
◦ For commercial, “shrink-wrapped”, large, complex
programs: C, C++, Java, C#, etc.
◦ To make programming easier and to solve numerical
problems: MATLAB
 Invented by Prof. Cleve Moler to
make programming easy for his
students
◦ Late 1970s
◦ University of New Mexico
 The MathWorks, Inc. was formed in1984
◦ By Moler and Jack Little
◦ One product: MATLAB
 Today
◦ 100 products
◦ Over 1,000,000 users
◦ Taught in 5,000 universities
 In 2012 the IEEE gave Cleve Moler its
annual Computer Pioneer Award
◦ “For Improving the quality of mathematical
software, making it more accessible, and creating
MATLAB”
 This course is our effort to add to the
impact of Moler’s creation by using it to
make computer programming more
accessible to you.
 We approach MATLAB programming as
part of computer science.
 We use the concepts and vocabulary of
computer science to introduce
computer programming.
 This approach gives an idea of how
computer scientists think...
 and makes it easier to learn MATLAB!
 www.mathworks.com
 Paying for MATLAB
◦ Student: $50
◦ MATLAB instructor: Free!
◦ Companies: $100s per user
 Trying MATLAB for free
◦ For everybody: 30 days
◦ For students in this course: free for12 weeks!
 How to get it? Visit class website for info.
 eBook
 Title and authors:
same as the
course!
 Recommended, but not
required.
J. MichaelFitzpatrick and Ákos Lédecz

 Current version used


at Vanderbilt since
2013
 Previous versions used
at Vanderbilt since 2000
 Both Apple (iBook for
iPad and Mac) and PDF
versions are available
for
$9.99 at
◦ cs103.net J. MichaelFitzpatrick and Ákos Lédecz
 Three main chapters
◦ Chapters 1 and 2 are covered
in this course
◦ The more advanced
concepts in Chapter 3 can be
learned on your own from
the book after completion of
this course

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