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

by Rudra Pratap

MATLAB, a software package for high-performance numerical computation and visualization, is one of the most widely used tools in the engineering field today. Its broad appeal lies in its interactive environment, which features hundreds of built-in functions for technical computation, graphics, and animation. In addition, MATLAB provides easy extensibility with its own high-level programming language.
Enhanced by fun and appealing illustrations, Getting Started with MATLAB employs a casual, accessible writing style that shows users how to enjoy using MATLAB.
Features
* Discusses new features and applications, including the new engine of symbolic computation in MATLAB 7.8 (released March 2009)
* Provides two sets of self guided tutorials for learning essential features of MATLAB
* Includes updated commands, examples, figure, and graphs
* Familiarizes users with MATLAB in just a few hours though self-guided lessons
* Covers elementary, advanced, and special functions
* Supplements any course that uses MATLAB
* Works as a stand-alone tutorial and reference

Genres: Mathematics

320 pages, Paperback

First published November 16, 2009

Reviews

[Tim · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book serves its purpose as an introduction to matlab. It focuses on providing minimal code examples for various graphs. It turns out a little code goes a long way in matlab to generate some impressive 3D plots. Matlab is excellent for graphing 2D and 3D plots. Luckily matlab has excellent documentation and once you have the basics you can thrive with the documentation. Still it would've been nice to be exposed to a greater variety of built-in commands, since it is difficult to look up the documentation for the names of commands you've never heard.

[Eti · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm a beginner for MATLAB and this book serves well as an introduction to MATLAB. I personally think that for every Computer language out there,a book like this one, should be written.

I didn't completely go through the book as of now and I don't know when I'll be able to,but till now whatever content I've covered,it is introduced in a very easy and good manner and this book is helping me to learn it quickly(when I did't even have any prior knowledge about MATLAB).

So,I recommend this book to everyone who want to learn MATLAB from the basic.

And this book have one of the best "Disclaimer" I have ever read.
It goes like:"Under no circumstances does the author assume any responsibility and liability thereof,for any injury caused to the reader by toxic fumes and explosions resulting from mixing incompatible matrices and vectors,Array operations are known to cause irritability and minor itching to beginners. The author, however, might buy the reader a cup of coffee in the case of serious distress. In rare case of very flattering comments or very creative suggestions about improving this book, the author might even buy the reader lunch.The reader is encouraged to try his/her luck by sending comments."


Thoroughly Recommended ! and I give it 4.5 stars,because there is always a chance of improvement. :)

This is January 2015 and I'm still not over with this book.It will take time.

[Hgvenom]

I gotta wait two weeks before i can even start reading this thing...

[Levi Baber · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not a huge matlab fan, and my opinion is that introductory matlab is so easy, the book was mostly unnecessary.