Learning MATLAB: A Problem Solving Approach

Learning MATLAB: A Problem Solving Approach provides a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to MATLAB, a computer language now widely used for technical computing. Teaching and learning a substantial programming language are not always straightforward tasks. Accordingly, this textbook is not meant to cover the whole range of this high-performance technical programming environment; instead, it is intended to motivate first and second year undergraduate students in mathematics and computer science to learn MATLAB by studying representative problems, developing algorithms, and programming them in MATLAB. While several topics are taken from the field of scientific computing, the main emphasis is on programming.

A wealth of examples are completely discussed and solved, allowing students to learn MATLAB by: solving problems, comparing approaches, and assessing the proposed solutions.