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What is MATLAB?

- The name stands for MATrix LABoratory - MATLAB is a high-performance language for technical
computing. It integrates computation, visualization, and programming environment.

MATLAB is a modern programming language environment: it has sophisticated data structures, contains built-in editing and debugging tools, and supports object-oriented programming.

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THE MATLAB SYSTEM

- Development Environment - The MATLAB Mathematical Function Library - The MATLAB Language - The MATLAB Application Program Interface (API)

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Development Environment

Set of tools and facilities that help use MATLAB functions and files. Includes: - MATLAB Desktop

- Command Window
- Command History - Editor and Debugger and browsers for viewing help - Workspace

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MATLAB MATHEMATICAL FUNCTION LIBRARY

- This is a vast collection of computational algorithms

ranging from elementary functions
Examples: > sum, sine, cosine, and complex arithmetic

> sophisticated functions like matrix inverse, matrix eigenvalues, Bessel functions, and fast Fourier transforms.

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MATLAB LANGUAGE
- This is a high-level matrix/array language with control flow statements, functions, data structures, input/output, and object-oriented programming features. - It allows both "programming in the small" to rapidly create quick and dirty throw-away programs, and "programming in the large" to create complete large and complex application programs.

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GRAPHICS

MATLAB has extensive facilities for displaying vectors and matrices as graphs, as well as annotating and printing these graphs. includes high-level functions for two-dimensional and three-dimensional data visualization, image processing, animation, and presentation graphics.

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- It also includes low-level functions.

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MATLAB APPLICATION PROGRAM INTERFACE

- This is a library that allows you to write C and Fortran programs that interact with MATLAB. - It includes facilities for calling routines from MATLAB (dynamic linking), calling MATLAB as a computational engine, and for reading and writing MAT-files.

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Development Environment
Desktop Tools

Command Window
Command History Star Button and Launch Pad

Help Browser
Current Directory Browser Workspace Browser Array Editor Editor/Debugger Profiler

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WORKSPACE BROWSER
- Consists of the set of variables during a MATLAB session and stored in memory

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ARRAY EDITOR

Use to edit the variables in the workspace. Three ways to open: double click the variable in the workspace browser, select the variable in the workspace and click open , use the openvar syntax

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EDITOR/DEBUGGER

Used to create and debug M-files, which are program you write to run the MATLAB functions