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Week 1 Part 3 Fundamentals

The document provides an introduction to MATLAB, covering how to access it, the MATLAB desktop, and basic debugging techniques. It discusses various data types in MATLAB, including floating-point, integer, strings, and logical values, as well as more complex structures like tables and cell arrays. Additional exercises encourage users to practice creating strings, character arrays, and logical variables.

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Week 1 Part 3 Fundamentals

The document provides an introduction to MATLAB, covering how to access it, the MATLAB desktop, and basic debugging techniques. It discusses various data types in MATLAB, including floating-point, integer, strings, and logical values, as well as more complex structures like tables and cell arrays. Additional exercises encourage users to practice creating strings, character arrays, and logical variables.

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Fundamentals

Where do I find MATLAB? Here!

Do I have to have MATLAB installed on my computer right


now? No, you can use MATLAB Online!

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Table of Contents

What we've covered this week in Part 2Data Types


Extra LearningWhat we've covered this week in Part 3

MATLAB Live Script

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What we've covered this week in Part 2
This week in Part 2 we learnt about:
 How to access MATLAB
 The MATLAB desktop
 MATLAB Cheat Sheet
 Obtaining help in MATLAB
 Basic debugging in MATLAB

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Data Types
There are many different data types, or classes, that you can work with in MATLAB. You
can build matrices and arrays of the following data types:
• floating-point
• integer data
• characters and strings,
• logical true and false values, and so on

The following data types provide a way to store dissimilar types of data in the same
container:
• tables
• timetables
• structures
• cell arrays

There are 16 fundamental classes in MATLAB, each of these classes is in the form of a
matrix or array (more on matrices and arrays in week 2: “Arrays, Matrices and
Operators). This matrix or array is a minimum of 0-by-0 in size and can grow to an n-
dimensional array of any size.
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Data Types
All the fundamental MATLAB classes are shown in the diagram below:

See this table that describes the fundamental classes in more detail.
Let’s see some examples using some of these fundamental data types.

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Data Types
Let’s create a string and character array.
Run the code (using the Run Section button ), and check the class of str and chr in
the Workspace:

str = "This is a string array" %Enclose text in double quotes to create a


string
chr = 'This is a character array' %Enclose text in single quotes to create a
character array

MATLAB displays strings with double quotes and character vectors with single quotes.
The difference between these two data types, is that str will be stored as a 1-by-1 string
or a string scalar whereas chr will be stored as a 1-by-12 character vector (confirm this in
the Workspace browser).

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Data Types
Now you try! Create a string of your name and a character array of your surname:

%Write your code here


%String of your name
%Character array of your surname

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Extra Learning
We can store our two variables (more on variables in Variables and Commands
section in Part 4 of Week 1), str and chr, and an additional numeric variable in one
container data type :

number = 25;

%Cell array data type


cellArray = {str, chr, number} %Cell array made up of a string, character
array and a double

%Structure data type


structure.stringField = str; %Structure with a field assigned a value of class
string
structure.characterArrayField = chr; %Structure with a field assigned a value
of class char
structure.numericDoubleField = number; %Structure with a field assigned a
value of class double

structure %Structure with three fields assigned values of different classes.

%Table data type


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table(str, Introduction'VariableNames',
{chr}, number, to Programming in MATLAB {'String',
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'Character', 'Double'})
Extra Learning
Now you try! Create a table with your name, surname, and your age:

%Write your code here


%Double value of your age
%Table with three variables/columns: Name, Surname and Age

We can create a logical data type variable in a few ways, one of them is to use
MATLAB built-in functions, in our case we’ll use the isa function to check a variable’s data
type:
tf = isa(str, 'char') %We’re checking if str is a character, this should return a
false

Now you try! Create a logical variable:


%Write your code here
%Check the data types of one of your variables

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What we've covered this week in Part 3
This week in Part 2 we learnt about:

 Data types

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MATLAB Live Script
Click on the link below for this lecture’s MATLAB live Script

• Week_1_Part_3_Fundamentals.mlx

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