Beginner's Guide to MATLAB Programming?

Hello everyone,

I'm new to both programming and MATLAB. For someone like me with no prior programming experience, what's the recommended learning strategy for MATLAB? Should I begin with C++ or dive straight into MATLAB? Also, are there any user-friendly resources or platforms tailored for beginners to learn MATLAB coding?

For context, I have some experience using Igor Pro, but I'm not sure if that would be of any benefit when transitioning to MATLAB.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

[Dyuman Joshi]

"Also, are there any user-friendly resources or platforms tailored for beginners to learn MATLAB coding?"

Absolutely - Start with the free MATLAB Onramp tutorial. Learn the basics of MATLAB and get familiar with the syntax.

There are many other tutorials offered by The MathWorks as well, you can check them out here - https://matlabacademy.mathworks.com/

"For someone like me with no prior programming experience"

As for this, I would suggest you to learn concepts of Mathematics that are used in programming such as Discrete mathematics, Linear Algebra, Probability and stats etc (in case you haven't already).

A good understanding of these concepts is the foundation to learning programming.

[Geng]

Thank you. I appreciate your suggestions.

Answer 2

[Ashok Kumar]

I do completely agree with Mr. Dyuman Joshi. Starting with MATLAB Onramp is good start to go. This course is prerequiste for the other sequel courses available on the MATLAB Training website.

"What's the recommended learning strategy for MATLAB?"

The one thing which helped me a lot is that "Always, try to use the learned concepts of MATLAB programming to your daily life computational tasks." Have patience while solving the tutorial problems and try to avoid seeing answers as much as possible while solving the code problem. Experiment on it as much as you can with the learned concepts. I hope you will find the same thing helpful in your learning journey. Best of luck. Happy coding!