Introduction to MATLAB Programming with Applications

Location: Room 108, 德田館
Time: 1900 ~ 2200


``All science is dominated by the idea of approximation.''
-- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

Instructor Information

Wi-Fi Access

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Objectives

Prerequisites

Text

Overview

The major topics covered in the short course, if time permitting, are listed below for your reference.

Essentials

Selected toolboxes

You could see the complete list of toolboxes offered by MATLAB. If you want a trial version of MATLAB, please check this page. After you evaluate MATLAB and you think it benefits your work (or you may try another reason: MATLAB vs. Python: Top Reasons to Choose MATLAB), I strongly recommend tha you could purchase MATLAB by visiting the page how to buy. If you cannot activate MATLAB in our classroom, update its license by using network.exe. Or you may use the older version of MATLAB from http://140.112.90.233:8088/.

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Date Summary
2020.10.14
  • Syllabus: grading policy, algorithm, working environment
2020.10.17
  • Data, data type, and vectorization
    • Variables and data types (integers, floats, strings)
    • Numerical errors: finite precision
    • Assignment operator (=) with a simplified memory model
    • Arithmetic operators (+, −, *, /, ^)
    • Arrays (aka vectors and matrices), cell arrays
    • Strings and dates
  • Market data of Taiwan Stock Exchange (from TEJ)
2020.10.21
  • Data, data type, and vectorization (cont'd)
    • Vectorization: element-by-element operations
    • Relational operators (<, ==, >) and logical values (true/false)
    • Logical operators (~, &, |) and quantifiers (all, any)
  • Flow controls
    • Selections (&&, ||, if-elseif-else, switch-case-otherwise)
    • Loops (for, while) (also try this game)
    • Numerical example: Monte Carlo simulation
2020.10.24
  • Flow controls (cont'd)
    • Numerical example: bisection method for root-finding
    • Jump statements (break, continue)
    • Nested loops
    • Two common algorithms: sorting and random permutation
  • Performance analysis
2020.10.28
2020.10.31
  • Functions
    • User-defined functions
    • Call stack and variable scope
    • Debugger
    • Primary function with helper functions
    • Function handle and anonymous function
    • Error and error handling (try-catch)
2020.11.4
  • Special issue: text processing
    • Regular expressions
  • Special issue: file operations & other I/O
    • Spreadsheets: excel, csv
    • File operations
    • Mat file
    • Example: data pooling
  • Matrix computation
    • Vectors and matrices
    • Inner product: projection
    • Linear transform: basic concepts of linear algebra (vector space, linear independece, span, basis, dimension)
2020.11.7
2020.11.11
2020.11.14
  • Final project demonstration

Sample code

Interesting topics for final projects

Gradebook

References

MATLAB

Linear algebra

Numerical analyses and methods

Data mining and machine learning

Optimization

Simulink