Practical introduction to MATLAB Programming

This module is shared with Psychology. Students from the Department of Psychology MUST book places on this course via the Department; any bookings made by Psychology students via the SSRMP portal will be cancelled.

The course focuses on practical hands-on variable handling and programming implementation using rather than on theory. This course is intended for those who have never programmed before, including those who only call/run Matlab scripts but are not familiar with how code works and how matrices are handled in Matlab. (Note that calling a couple of scripts is not 'real' programming.)

MATLAB (C) is a powerful scientific programming environment optimal for data analysis and engineering solutions. More information on the programme and its uses can be found here

More information on the course can be found here

• Postgraduate students and staff
• Further details regarding eligibility criteria are available here

• No prior knowledge is needed.
• Students will need to bring their own laptop with the latest version of Matlab (see www.mathworks.com) pre-installed. Cambridge students can download and install Matlab from mathworks.com for free with their CRSid. Select and install all packages available to you.
• Before class, please skim through the excellent free resources, Getting Started and Language Fundamentals: http://uk.mathworks.com/help/matlab/index.html

Lectures and labs

MatLab installed on student's own laptop.

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This module is not assessed.

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