Matlab Supercalculator Introduction

Content

This course provides a quick introduction to Matlab. The purpose is to give students fluency in Matlab: get to know the software environment, use it as a super scientific calculator and know the very basics of Matlab as a programming environment.

Topics covered are:

Matlab as a calculator

• Matlab Desktop and the Matlab HELP
• Creating Arrays
• Array Operations
• Logical Operations

Matlab more

• Matlab scripts
• Importing data
• Matlab interactive graphics
• Basic numericals    

Target Group

This course is primarily targeted at researchers that would like/need to perform large scale computations using HPC facility - current and potential VSC-users.

Prior Knowledge

No prior knowledge of Matlab is required. Basic computer literacy is expected as well as a basic understanding of the concepts of programming.

Results/Objectives

After completion the student should be able to:

• Use the Matlab environment in an efficient way
• Write programs in Matlab to solve scientific problems
• Scripts, functions
• Use different built-in data types
• Use the available tools to improve the performance

Level: introductory

Course Room: opleidingslokaal B