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Programming Patterns: Some Common MATLAB Programming Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

by Linda Webb

06 Jan 2009

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Tips and best practices to help you become fluent in MATLAB and achieve your programming goals

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Just like natural languages, programming languages have idioms. Mastering these nuances of syntax and meaning is essential to achieving your programming goal—whether that goal is to create a robust program or simply to get the right answer. Here are some tips and best practices to help you become fluent in MATLAB and achieve those goals.
By Loren Shure, The MathWorks

This article was published in The MathWorks News & Notes, 2008, which you can read at http://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletters/?s_cid=nws_flex

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MATLAB 7.7 (R2008b)

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13 Jan 2009	heiko	good examples, setting things in an even wider context would help. I.e. fully worked examples to run e.g. for ' load', for graphics examples
02 Feb 2009	Awhan Patnaik	nice ... i found the tip about using function handles instead of specifying them as strings very useful.

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