Experts of MATLAB, how did you learn? Any advice for beginner/intermediate users?
The community is very helpful, yet I feel really powerless that I cannot find the appropriate way to code, nor find the problems with the codes I have written. I have read numerous books on MATLAB, mostly related with science and engineering applications. Any advice to improve would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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MATLAB has extensive documentation and examples. Go through these examples, understand how they work, and try to modify them to do something slightly different. This will help you understand the nuances of the language and its application.
Do you know about the Onramps? I highly encourage you check these out :)
These are typically a short, 2-3 hour commitment, and they are free!
The MATLAB Onramp is the best way to start if you've very new to MATLAB.
There are also the more comprehensive "Fundamentals" courses:
I recommend MATLAB Fundamentals to built a good foundation before moving on to any other courses.
Practice makes perfect
University of Vanderbilt offers an externsive course on MATLAB on the COURSERA platform
To write an mfile for the MATLAB File Exchange, there are other places to look for ideas, besides MATLAB's File Exchange: textbooks, languages, internet, ...
Hi,
I have a collection of samples programs posted on my MathWorks page on here. I also have a collection of YouTube videos that I've put together to help people through basics and some complicated things in MATLAB. These videos correspond to step by step directions on how to make the programs I've posted on MathWorks. How to Create Programs in MATLAB (tutorial): YouTube MATLAB tutorial
I also reply to any comments on YouTube to answer MATLAB questions. I'm always happy to help out.
Best of luck on your learning journey. -Kelsey
I always look in documentation first, unless I already know it. The stuff at the top and the bottom of the pages, of the "commands" and/or "functions" that you enter into the documentation search bar, are usually the most useful. MATLAB "Answers" is what I use next if I can't find what I need in documentation, and you can access MATLAB "Answers" two ways, directly from the File Exchange page and the MATLAB Central (drop down menu), or I use Google Chrome to search for MATLAB "Answers" by entering into the Google Chrome search bar: "matlab" and "search term question", but leave out the previous and, and the quotation marks. Thank you, thank you very much.
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