Software tutorial

This tutorial will expand as we progress in the course. Each section has notes for both MATLAB and Python.

1. About the course software
2. Software installation
3. Getting started
4. My first program (required for Tutorial 1)
5. for loops and while loops (required for Tutorial 1)
6. Scripts and functions (useful for Tutorial 2)

Need some more help?

Not every aspect about MATLAB or Python can be covered here. Here are some additional resources.

MATLAB

Python

MATLAB primer - a guide to MATLAB by Dr. Prashant Mhaskar. Introduction to MATLAB - a presentation to the 2009 CHE 3E04 class by Elliot Cameron and Eric Rodger Getting started with MATLAB 7 - a guide from the MathWorks. Online MATLAB tutorial: An MATLAB tutorial from the University of Florida. MathWorks documentation: The official MATLAB documentation MATLAB Central File Exchange: User-created MATLAB code that can be freely used.

The non-programmer's guide to Python