COMS W3101-2 Programming Languages: MATLAB |
Call Number: 79542 Points: 1 Day/Time: Tu 10:30am-12:30pm Location: 227 Seeley W. Mudd Building Notes: START DATE: 3/2/10 END DATE: 4/13/10 NO CLASS ON 3/16/10
Instructor: Michele Merler Office: 624 CEPSR Email: mmerler@cs.columbia.edu Office Hours: Thursday 12pm-2pm
TA : Daniel Miau Office: Mudd 122A (TA room) Email: dm2701@columbia.edu Office Hours: Mon 10am-12pm
TA : Rohit Sethi Office: Mudd 122A (TA room) Email: rs2990@columbia.edu Office Hours: Wed 3.30pm-5.30pm |
Course Description MATLAB® is a high-level language and interactive environment that allows to perform computationally intensive tasks to solve problems in Science and Engineering such as: · Perform Matrix and Vector Operations · Compute Complex Mathematical Functions · Plotting and Visualization · Perform Simulation and Prototyping · The goal of this class is to provide an introduction to the MATLAB environment and language, in order to be able to perform the mentioned operations and easily learn how to deal with more complex ones |
USEFUL LINKS
MATLAB Documentation from Mathworks MATLAB File Exchange biggest MATLAB code sharing site Google Search MATLAB Educational websites Blogs |
NEWS
12/03/09 Website is up
03/02/10 Homework 1 is out
03/09/10 HW1 solutions and Homework 2 are out
03/23/10 Homework 3 is out
03/24/10 HW2 solution is out
03/30/10 HW4 is out, HW3 and Quiz solutions are out
04/06/10 HW5 is out and HW4 solutions are out
04/13/10 HW solution is out, end of class! |
Requirements · CUNIX account, and access to courseworks for grades · Access to MATLAB 7 or higher, there are computer labs on campus where you can use your cunix account to access MATLAB, or you can purchase a student copy from mathworks · No book · One class of programming experience (if you do not have programming experience, please check the correspondent 1000 level course) · Basics of calculus and linear algebra |
Syllabus (tentative)
Lecture 1 – March 2 · Introduction · Data Structures (Variables, Vectors, Matrices) · Types (int, double, single) · Operators · Basic Plotting · Scripts
Lecture 2 – March 9 · Plotting (continued) · Control flow (if_else, for, while, loops)
Lecture 3 – March 23 · I/O (from files, images, loading/saving variables) · User input · Advanced data structures (cell, struct) · Debugging · Functions
Lecture 4 – March 30 · Figures · Images · Videos
Lecture 5 – April 6 Exercises groceries.txt · Math and Linear algebra · Solving equations, basic statistics
Lecture 6 – April 13 · Final Useful things · Object Oriented Programming Example · GUI |
Homeworks
Instructions · Due at beginning of class, no exceptions · Put your code (.m files) and additional files in a single folder, name it youruni_hw_X and zip it · Upload the folder to CourseWorks · Bring a printout of your code to class
Files · Homework 2 surface.mat solution · Homework 3 Temperature.txt grades.txt solution |