SUNY Geneseo Department of Computer Science

Matlab’s User Environment

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Misc

If your Matlab has trouble searching documentation, look at the “help” section of “preferences” and make sure Matlab is set to search Internet documentation, not only local

Number of Matlab licenses for Geneseo is marginal for this class. Watch out for errors re license when launching Matlab

Watch lecture notes for answers to questions from class meetings you aren’t in

Don’t forget to see me for 15 minutes to talk about this lesson

Questions?

Environment Exercise

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Arithmetic and other expressions in Matlab

Handout

Read/Watch

• Matlab knowledge
  • Attaway sections 1.3 - 1.6
  • First 3 minutes of “Variables and Simple Arrays” f/ Edinburgh (stop when they start talking about row vectors and column vectors)
  • “Matlab Commands” and “Assignment” from the “Variables and Expressions” chapter of MathWorks’ tutorial
• Mathematical background for problem 3
  • The “Rule of Sum and Product” mini-lecture at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdiP-aqj6ho&list=PL62C294AAC3D59DCE
  • The “Combinations” mini-lecture at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKuFIb0rqW0&list=PL62C294AAC3D59DCE
  • The “Expected Value” mini-lecture at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAjVAEDil_Q