1. Introduction to Matlab
What is Matlab?
Is Matlab like C?
Why learn Matlab?
What’s the best way to learn Matlab?
Google for tutorials

2. How much will I learn? 3 lectures 2 labs 1 practical
That’s not much time, but it’s enough to start to become familiar with basic Matlab concepts.

3. What I expect you to be able to do…
Define vectors and matrices
Access parts of vectors/matrices using indexing
Solve a system of linear equations
Plot simple functions
Add titles and text to plots
Write simple ‘m’ files.
Use Matlab’s help.
Complex numbers
Move Excel data into Matlab
Simple Symbolic Calculations

4. In the lectures you should…
Listen with an ear for the “big” picture. It’s easy to get lost in the details.
Try to make the basic ideas stick in your long term memory.
Make a mental commitment to using Matlab in other Engineering courses – even if it’s not required.

5. Some demos help demo You can analyze and process speech
Load a wav
Spectrogram
Special Effects
You can analyze and process images

6. Getting Started Command line Variable listing with sizes
History and Navigation
Present working directory (pwd)
The colon operator for defining vectors
The value of the semicolon
What’s an m-file? And what about toolboxes?

7. More intro stuff The ‘lookfor’ command The workspace
Saving your work *.m and *.mat files.
The Matlab path.
Direct entry of vectors and matrices
Getting Data from Excel – A simple way.
Matrix arithmetic operations.
The point-by-point operator

8. And more…
Complex numbers
Indexing concepts