Training - Courses

Objective: Prepare for the day and understand The MathWorks products as they relate to MATLAB

• Quick overview of The MathWorks and the family of products
• Course setup, materials, and logistics
• Big picture view of the course ahead

Objective: Understand M-file programming basics using the new IDE

• The MATLAB workspace and visual directory
• Automatic code generation features
• The MATLAB editor
• Script and function M-files
• Programming keywords and constructions
• MATLAB precedence rules
• M-file cells
• M-file publishing
• M-file best practices

Objective: Write M-files with increased flexibility and the ability to handle exception arguments

• Variable numbers of input and output arguments
• Error and warning messages
• Exception handling

Objective: Introduce diagnostic tools for investigating correctness and efficiency of MATLAB code

• MATLAB debugger
• Visual directory tools
• MATLAB profiler

Objective: Techniques for writing more efficient code

• Memory preallocation and management
• Vectorization techniques
• The MATLAB Accelerator
• MEX-files and the MATLAB Compiler

Objective: Use function handles to pass functional arguments to MATLAB "function functions"

• Representing and evaluating functions in MATLAB
• When to use function handles
• The function handle data type
• Function functions
• Optimization function functions
• Integration function functions
• ODE function functions