Introduction to Programming with MATLAB (Vanderbilt University)

This online course is designed for engineers or scientists with little to no coding experience who wish to start programming in MATLAB for school or work. By the end of the course, you will have a thorough understanding of MATLAB and programming. Students enrolled in the course will receive a free MATLAB online license for the duration of the course. The course starts with an overview of the MATLAB environment and user interface, where you'll learn how to use MATLAB as a sophisticated calculator and how to construct charts.

Then you'll learn how to use MATLAB's basic unit, the matrix. They solve issues by manipulating matrices, and operators are the fundamental tool for doing so. You'll learn how to define matrices, extract sections, combine them to form new matrices, and understand how MATLAB operators work. Following that, you'll learn how to design and use functions to break problems down into smaller, more manageable, and reusable components.

The following section of the course covers the various built-in functions in MATLAB. You'll learn about polymorphism, the MATLAB random number generator, how to get input and output to the Command Window, plot graphs in a Figure window, and utilize MATLAB's debugger, among other things. Then, you'll learn how to manage the flow of a program using selects and loops, including if-statements, for-loops, and while-loops.

MATLAB includes 15 fundamental data types, which you will learn about in this section. The lesson explains the 10 different sorts of numbers and how to convert between them. You'll learn a lot more about strings, how to create heterogeneous data collections using structs and cells, and how to store points in time and time durations. In the course's last section, you'll learn about MATLAB's most significant techniques for reading and writing files, such as MAT files, Excel files, text files, and binary files, as well as how to traverse among folders using MATLAB commands.

The course lasts 9 weeks, with 3-4 hours of study every week. You'll mostly learn through video lectures and working on programming tasks and exams that will put your MATLAB skills to the test. If you pay for the certificate, you will also get access to the graded issues that will be used to earn your certificate.

Fun Facts

• The course has 58.9K bookmarks and 207 reviews on Class Central.
• It is #2 in Class Central’s MATLAB topic.
• It is part of the MATLAB Programming for Engineers and Scientists Specialization.

Institution: Vanderbilt University

Provider: Coursera

Instructors: Akos Ledeczi, Michael Fitzpatrick, and Robert Tairas

Level: Beginner

Workload: 27–36 hours total

Enrollments: 438K

Google Rating: 4.8 / 5.0

Certificate: Paid

Enroll here: coursera.org/learn/matlab