MATLAB Tips and Resources

Matlab Tips

• Manipulating ASCII data files
• Matlab and For loops
• M-files
• Save figures

Short hints:

• Variable names, and m-files names, cannot start with a number.
• Matlab may not like file names with a space in them, so avoid them.
• While Matlab can deal with "HOURS" and "hours" as two different variables (because it is case sensitive), you may not be so lucky, so I would never use those two variables in the same program.
• Use the Workspace, which lists all the variables.  You can click on one, and see a table showing the values, and you can compare what Matlab is computing (based on your code) with what you know it should be.
• If you use functions in external files, you should not rename them.

Student resources from Mathworks

• http://www.mathworks.com/academia/student_center/tutorials/launchpad.html 

The web has a host of resources for Matlab.  Try googling whatever you need (use "MATLAB" and then a term that describes what you want to do).  I have found the following sites useful:

• http://www.math.ufl.edu/help/matlab-tutorial/
• http://www.cyclismo.org/tutorial/matlab/
• http://www.maths.dundee.ac.uk/~ftp/na-reports/MatlabNotes.pdf

SM415 and  SM415H websites have links to other Matlab resources

• http://web.usna.navy.mil/~rmm/SM415/SM415.html
• http://web.usna.navy.mil/~rmm/SM415/SM415H.html

SEA-MAT: Matlab Tools for Oceanographic Analysis

• http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/sea-mat/

last revised 4/20/2010