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

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    This document provides an introduction to a lesson on MATLAB. The lesson is an introductory college course that will be taught over 8 weeks of video lectures by instructors from Vanderbilt University School of Engineering. MATLAB was invented in the late 1970s by Cleve Moler to make programming easier for students. It has since grown to be used by over 1 million users at 5,000 universities. This course aims to teach computer programming concepts using MATLAB to make the topic more accessible.

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    This document provides an introduction to a lesson on MATLAB. The lesson is an introductory college course that will be taught over 8 weeks of video lectures by instructors from Vanderbilt University School of Engineering. MATLAB was invented in the late 1970s by Cleve Moler to make programming easier for students. It has since grown to be used by over 1 million users at 5,000 universities. This course aims to teach computer programming concepts using MATLAB to make the topic more accessible.

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

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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.
     Current version used at
    Vanderbilt since 2013
     Previous versions used at
    Vanderbilt since 2000
    J. Michael Fitzpatrick
    and Ákos Lédeczi
     Both Apple (iBook for
    iPad and Mac) and PDF
    versions are available for
    $9.99 at
    ◦ cs103.net
     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 J. Michael Fitzpatrick
    and Ákos Lédeczi

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