Training - Courses

• Objective: Understand MathWorks products and the goals of this course
• Introduction to The MathWorks
• Overview of MathWorks products
• Course outline

Objective: Gain an overall understanding of the MATLAB API and the MEX-file interface

• MATLAB API
• Introduction to MEX-files
• Parts of a MEX-file
• The mex script and mex script options
• Setting up MATLAB to compile MEX-files
• The MATLAB MEX interface

Objective: Gain an overall understanding of the mxArray data structure to create, access, and query different data types

• Working with MATLAB data
• Working with the mxArray class
• Using the mx and the mex prefix
• Creating, accessing, and querying numeric and character arrays
• Creating general-purpose routines
• Working with structures and cell arrays
• Working with sparse arrays

Objective: Understanding memory management with mxArrays

• Passing input and output arguments
• Managing memory
• Memory allocation
• Memory de-allocation
• Preventing memory leaks
• Improper use of PRHS
• Improper use of mxSet routines

Objective: Gain an understanding of diagnostic error handling, passing variables, calling other M/MEX-files, and using clean-up functions in MEX-files

• Displaying diagnostic messages
• Passing variables into and out of MEX-Files
• Calling other M/MEX-files
• Using clean-up functions
• Clearing files
• Clearing variables
• Extras

Objective: Understand how to debug a MEX-file

• Overview of debugging
• Compiling the MEX-file for debugging
• Debugging on Windows using Microsoft Visual Studio
• Debugging on UNIX

Objective: Understand how to call Java from MATLAB

• Introduction to the MATLAB Java interface
• Creating Java objects
• Bringing in Java classes
• Invoking methods on Java objects
• Exploring the methods of an object
• Using the call by reference nature of Java objects
• Working with data
• Using Java arrays
• Working with GUIs built with Java
• Connecting to the Internet with Java

Objective: Understand how to call DLLs from MATLAB

• Overview
• Loading and unloading libraries
• Getting information about the library
• Invoking library functions
• Passing arguments
• Converting data

Objective: Understand how to read and write from a MAT-file

• Introduction to MAT-files
• Working with MAT-file applications
• Using MAT-file API routines
• Compiling MAT-file applications

Objective: Understand how to call the MATLAB engine from a client application

• Introduction to the MATLAB engine and related applications
• Working with the MATLAB engine API
• Opening and closing the MATLAB engine
• Putting data into the engine
• Retrieving data from the engine
• Evaluating a MATLAB expression in the engine