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Course Meeting Times

Lectures: 1 session / day for 5 days, 2 hours / session

Course Description

This course provides an aggressively gentle introduction to MATLAB®. It is designed to give students fluency in MATLAB, including popular toolboxes. The course consists of interactive lectures with a computer running MATLAB for each student. Problem-based MATLAB assignments are given which require significant time on MATLAB. To pass, a student must complete all four MATLAB assignments.

Prerequisites

Required: 6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 18.03 Differential Equations
Recommended: 6.041 Probabilistic Systems Analysis, 18.06 Linear Algebra

Textbooks

The following textbook is required:

Palm, William J. Introduction to MATLAB 7 for Engineers. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2003. ISBN: 9780072922424.

MATLAB® Tutorials

MATLAB tutorial

Another MATLAB tutorial

Signal Processing Toolbox

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