At the end of this chapter you should be able to
- Start .
- Define variables and perform computations with them.
- Know how to suppress printout with
;
- Recognize built-in variables.
- Use on-line help to get more information on a function.
- Create matrices and vectors with direct assignment (using [ ])
- Extract elements from vectors and matrices with subscript notation.
- Use colon notation to create vectors and extract ranges of elements from
vectors and matrices.
- Use linspace and logspace to create vectors.
- Use the transpose operator.
- Understand how to use array operators (.*, .+,...)
and why they are different from the regular (*, +,...)
operators.
- Create and manipulate complex vectors and matrices.
- Use path-changing commands to access files at different
directories (folders) on your hard disk.
- Use the load command to read data from a file.
- Use the plot function to plot data stored in variables.