ENGRMAE 10 Lecture 1: MAE10_F2015_Lecture01
9 Sep 2015
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It is designed to be great at handling matrices. Matlab is a high-level language and interactive environment. You write simple ascii text that is translated into a lower-level language the computer can understand in order to perform calculations. No computer language is best for every application. Matlab is great at manipulating matrices and is very user friendly. It is used in many different academic fields. Fortran, c are great at pure number crunching, not as user friendly. Maple and mathematica are great at symbolic math and are very user friendly. Matlab will be a good first language, especially for engineers. The techniques you will learn in this course will apply to a lot of other languages. Once you learn one language, it is much easier to learn other languages. Here is a brief history of matlab: http://74. 125. 155. 132/search?q=cache:omoxn7jew_4j:www. cpe. ku. ac. th/~anan/courses/204111. Jim. ppt+matlab+history&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a (quick summary: matlab was developed to do everything other high-level languages can do, but be much more user friendly. )
