After mastering the bare essentials you should move on to a deeper understanding
of the fundamentals. Doing so involves being able to
- Understand how to add and remove variables from the workspace.
- Create and manipulate string variables.
- Create and manipulate polynomials.
- Use contour, surf, plot3
etc. to create two and three-dimensional plots.
- Reshape matrices with the reshape function and a trick with
colon notation.