Lecture materials
These posted files are not complete transcripts of the lectures. You are expected to attend lecture and to take notes for yourself. The section numbers for reading refer to our textbook Programming with MATLAB. Videos are from the textbook for CS 1112 (our full-semester MATLAB course), Insight Through Computing.
| No. | Date | Topics | Notes | Program examples | Reading / videos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fri, Aug 27 | Introduction, MATLAB interface, simple script | Outline Slides |
SphereArea.m, diffArea.m | 1.1, 1.3, Ch 2, 3.1–3.5 The Matlab Desktop |
| 2 | Mon, Aug 30 | User-defined functions, conditionals, for-loop |
Outline Slides |
mcPi.m | 3.8, Ch 4, Ch 5 User-Defined Function, Conditional Statement, The for-loop, Troubleshooting Loops
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| Wed, Sep 1 | Lab 1: MATLAB basics, user-defined functions | ||||
| 3 | Fri, Sep 3 | while-loop, arrays, simple graphics |
Outline Slides |
piApproxPlot.m, piApproxAnnulus.m, piApproxWhile.m | 6.1 The while-Loop, Creating Arrays, Array Addressing |
| Mon, Sep 6 | Labor Day | ||||
| Wed, Sep 8 | Lab 2: Loops, 1-d arrays (vectors) | ||||
| 4 | Fri, Sep 10 | Vector applications, 2-d array (matrix) | Outline Slides |
cumulativeSum.m, rollDie.m, showMultigraph.m, plotComparison2.m, printMatrix.m | 6.2–6.11, Ch 7, 8.1–8.3, 9.1–9.3, 9.11 |
| 5 | Mon, Sep 13 | Matrices, nested loops | Outline Slides |
minInMatrix.m, RandomLinks.m, CirclePoints.m, ShowRandomLinks.m, ShowRandomLinks2.m | 9.4–9.10 |
| Mon, Sep 13 | Assignment 1 due | ||||
| Wed, Sep 15 | Lab 3: 2-d array (matrix), nested loops | ||||
| 6 | Fri, Sep 16 | Vectorized arithmetic, subfunction | Outline Slides |
piApproxSub.m, plotComparison.m, minInNeighborhood.m | Vectorized Arithmetic |
| 7 | Mon, Sep 20 | Vectorized logical operations | Outline Slides |
minInNeighborhoodV2.m, minInNeighborhoodV3.m, mcPi_plot_v1.m, mcPi_plot_v2.m, mcPi_plot_v3.m, mcPi_plot_v4.m | Ch 12 |
| Wed, Sep 22 | Lab 4: Subarrays, non-uniform distributions | ||||
| 8 | Fri, Sep 24 | char and char arrays |
Outline Slides |
removeChar_loop.m, toUpper.m, censor.m, showCensor.m | 10.1-10.5 Characters & Strings |
| 9 | Mon, Sep 27 | Review | Slides | ||
| Mon, Sept 27 | Assignment 2 due | ||||
| Wed, Sep 29 | Test (Location: Thurston 205) | ||||
| 10 | Fri, Oct 1 | Cell arrays, file I/O | Outline Slides |
roman.m | Ch 11 Strings in Cell Arrays |
| 11 | Mon, Oct 4 | Selection and filtering | Outline Slides |
file2cellArray.m, cellArray2file.m, issYear.m, norad.txt, makePuzzle.m, guessLetter.m | Vectorized Logical Operations |
| Wed, Oct 6 | Lab 5: Char arrays, vectorized logical ops, cell arrays | ||||
| 12 | Fri, Oct 8 | Application: image processing | Slides | probePixel.m, DrawCrosshairs.m, peppers-g.png | Ch 16 (optional) |
| Mon, Oct 11 | Fall break | ||||
| Wed, Oct 13 | Lab 6: Work on assignment 3 | ||||
| 13 | Fri, Oct 15 | Image processing (continued) | Slides | toBWLuma.m, medianFilter.m, LawSchoolNoise-800.jpg | |
| 14 | Mon, Oct 18 | Function handles | Slides | accof.m, RootDemo.m, lvrhs.m, LVDemo.m | Ch 13 (optional) |
| Mon, Oct 18 | Assignment 3 due | ||||
