Creating a matrix within a matrix

I'm having trouble on how to create an MxN matrix will all zeros and in that MxN matrix I want the the first column, first row, last row, and last column to be zeros while the rest of the matrix is all different numbers, with possible values as 0 zeros as well. An example is below,

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0
0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 
0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0
0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Really the only values that the middle section can have is one or zero but the outsides have to all be zeros.

[José-Luis]

Is this homework? What have you tried so far? This could be achieved with logical indexing or a function from the image processing toolbox.

[Jakub]

Well the first step I tried was doing zeros(M,1,1) and then (zeros(1,N,1) and got stuck with that because that only provided me with the first row and column. Next I tried doing a zeros(M,N) but that leaves me with a MxN zero matrix.

[Jakub]

It's actually part of my Thesis however I have no prior computer programing background and my adviser took the week off ~_~

Answer 1

[Matt J]

If you're saying you have a given matrix A and want to set the edges to zero,

A([1,end],[1,end])=0;

[Jakub]

Alright I understand that, thank you. One last question would be how do I randomly pick values either 0 or 1 inside the submatrix I want. Meaning I leave the outside all zeros but generate possible 1 or 0 on the inside.

[Matt J]

Use randi() to generate random zeros and ones everywhere. Then use the code I showed you to set the boundaries to zero.