Getting Started With MATLAB: Version 6 : A Quick Introduction for Scientists and Engineers

By Rudra Pratap

Book Overview

Getting Started with MATLAB: A Quick Introduction for Scientists and Engineers

BL Gets you up and running with MATLAB in just a few hours
BL Features the latest release of MATLAB
BL Thoroughly introduces the basics you need to get started
BL Contains six self-guided lessons (Chapter 2)
BL Covers useful advanced MATLAB functions (Chapters 3-8)
BL Works as a handy stand-alone tutorial
BL Supplements any text that uses MATLAB
BL Includes numerous new problems and examples

MATLAB is one of the most widely used tools in the field of engineering today. Its broad appeal lies in its interactive environment with hundreds of built-in functions for technical computation, graphics, and animation. It provides easy extensibility with its own high-level programming language. Getting Started with MATLAB: A Quick Introduction for Scientists and Engineers uses a casual writing style, enhanced by fun and appealing illustrations, to quickly and pleasantly teach readers to enjoy using this high-performance computation and visualization software.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195150147
• ISBN13: 9780195150148
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.2" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Best Beginner's book

Excellent for beginner's to mid level users. I hated MATLAB before I read this book..

Excellent Starter

A course in mechanisms required this text, and I thought it was the most amazing starting text. I knew nothing of matlab prior to the book, and after reading it I could program in matlab proficiently.

Excellent to learn with and then use as a reference.

I never learned Matlab as a BSEE student, but use it extensively as a grad student EE. I learned Matlab very quickly with this book and continue to use it as a basic reference. It does not go into depth in DSP, creating graphics, or the optional Matlab toolbox functions, but its a great starting point to learn Matlab.

A Quick Introduction...

I started hearing about MATLAB when I started going to college to do my bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. I took a C++ class and I really enjoyed the power of C++ in problem solving and logic.Then came MATLAB which is a class that is required to be taken by all EE students. I got this book because it had the word "quick". Time is a very important factor when it comes to learning a new language, whether a living language (like French) or a programming language (like C++ or MATLAB).This book is really a nice way to get you started with confidence. I rarely use the assigned book for the class, I use this one instead. Very easy to read and step by step instructions.Highly recommended for anyone who's just started working on MATLAB.Even after you get used to MATLAB, this book can be used as a reference book to find some important commands with examples and illustrtions.