This is the page for Math 98, a six-week introduction to MATLAB intended as a supplement to Math 128A. Students are expected to have little or no prior experience with programming. Home

Announcements:


Class Time and Location:
Group 009 (Class 23115): Thursday 3:30-5, B3A Evans
Group 010 (Class 23116): Thursday 5-6:30, B3A Evans

Schedule:
This course will use the following books as its primary texts:

K Sayood (KS), Learning Programming Using MATLAB.

Otto and Denier (OD), An Introduction to Programming and Numerical Methods in MATLAB.
For further reference, try Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists by Brian H Hahn and Daniel T Valentine, available for free to UC Berkeley students here.

Week	Topic	Reading	Notes	Code
Week 1: 24 Jan	I/O, logicals, if/else statements	KS 3, 4.1-4.5	Lecture 1	folder
Week 2: 31 Jan	Loops, vectors, functions	KS 5, 7 OD 1.4, 1.7, 2.1	Lecture 2	folder
Week 3: 7 Feb	Functions	OD 2.2 Mathworks I, II	Lecture 3	folder
Week 4: 14 Feb	Graphing	Documentation	Lecture 4	folder
Week 5: 21 Feb	Recursion, Matrices	OD 6	Lecture 5	folder
Week 6: 28 Feb	Data, Debugging	Cells, Tables	Lecture 6	folder

Passing the Course:
This is a 1-unit P/NP class. There are 6 homework assignments worth 2 points each, one due each week. A final project, worth 6 points, will be due later in the semester. A final score of 12/18 is needed to pass.

Assignments:
Each assignment will be due by 11:59pm on the given date. Submissions should be uploaded to bCourses.

Due Date	Assignment	Solutions
31 Jan	HW1	hw1.m
7 Feb	HW2	hw2.m
14 Feb	HW3	functionSplicer.m, functionSplicer2.m, hw3driver.m
21 Feb	HW4	HW4
28 Feb	HW5	HW5
7 Mar	HW6
22 Mar	Final Project

Installing MATLAB:
You can download MATLAB here and obtain a student license here.