MATLAB / Octave tutorial-------Introduction




MATLAB / OCTAVE TUTORIAL
Welcome to the tutorial. In this series of notes, we shall be learning MATLAB / Octave right from scratch. Starting from basics we shall delve deep into a plethora of applications that these programming languages can serve.


 MATLAB and Octave, both are very similar prototyping softwares. Unlike our familiar programming languages like C, Java, C++, C# etc., these softwares are extremely user friendly and come preloaded with built-in packages that help us in performing whole lot of applications without typing any complex code. They do not follow a structured approach unlike the familiar programming languages.
MATLAB is an acronym for MATrix LABoratory. As the name suggests, most data that we will use here will be in the form of vectors (synonym for 1-D array in C, Java, etc.) or in the form of matrices (synonymous to 2-D arrays). 

MATLAB and Octave are essentially the same but the major difference arises when doing circuit/control system simulation. MATLAB comes with preinstalled package Simulink with is not present in Octave. However, Octave becomes useful since it is open source, i.e., you don’t have to buy it but MATLAB comes with trial version which expires after 30 days, post which you’ll have to buy it.
In this tutorial, we shall see both MATLAB and Octave simultaneously and gradually shift towards Octave, as for students, Octave may be a bit more useful (since it’s free!!!).

 From the next blogs onwards you'll get to know, in detail, about how you will code in MATLAB / Octave. So, Happy Learning!!!!



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  1. Unknown8 November 2017 at 01:58

    Download MATLAB(trial) here: https://in.mathworks.com/downloads/web_downloads/download_custom_trial
    Download Octave here: https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html

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  2. Unknown8 November 2017 at 02:03

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