Matlab Information

The main resource for Matlab is the Mathworks support web site, but there are lots of other good places to look for information.

Matlab Tutorials

• University of Utah CS 1000 Matlab course Click on the Notes field to get lots of nice information.
• LSU Chemical Engineering Deparment
• Tom Huber, Gustavus Adolphus College
• Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
• University of New Hampshire

Other Matlab links

• A Wiki book of MATLAB programming . This looks very promising!
• A comprehensive MATLAB programming site
• Plotting/Graphs: Generic plotting is pretty awful in MATLAB but there are tricks to make it better:
  • 2D Plotting documentation
  • Exporting figures and even making them look half decent despite Matlab's weird defaults.

General Programming Information

• Programming Concepts by Richard Holowczak.
• BYU CHum 210 Basic Programming Concepts. A description for humanities students.
• Coder's Wiki Programming concepts.

Slightly More Arcane Information

• Emacs support for MATLAB:
  1. Lisp file for MATLAB support. Save this at "matlab.el" wherever you keep your other emacs support files.
  2. Add the following to your own .emacs file:

     ;; Matlab mode
     (autoload 'matlab-mode "~/emacs/lisp/matlab" "Enter Matlab mode." t)
     (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.m\\'" . matlab-mode) auto-mode-alist))
     ;; User Level customizations:
     (setq matlab-indent-function t)	; if you want function bodies indented
     ;;   (setq matlab-verify-on-save-flag nil) ; turn off auto-verify on save
     (defun my-matlab-mode-hook ()
       (setq fill-column 76)		; where auto-fill should wrap
       (matlab-mode-hilit) 			; Turn hilit on
       (setq matlab-indent-level 4)         ; Set matlab indentation
     )
     (add-hook 'matlab-mode-hook 'my-matlab-mode-hook)
     

  3. Modify the commands above to fine tune for your favorite look and feel.