• Length:
    4 Weeks
  • Effort:
    5–6 hours per week
  • Price:

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  • Institution
    EPFLx
  • Subject:
    Computer Science
  • Level:
    Introductory
  • Language:
    English
  • Video Transcript:
    English
  • Course Type:
    Self-paced on your time

Prerequisites

No background in programming needed. However, the following background in math concepts are necessary:

  • functions of a variable
  • graph of a function
  • (optionally) function of two variables
  • vector and matrix manipulation
  • manipulation de vecteurs et matrices

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About this course

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Take an exciting crash course in MATLAB and Octave programming. Both languages allow users to experiment with advanced mathematical functions and produce exciting matrix visualizations.

In this hands-on, self-paced introductory course, students will learn step by step how to use these mathematical tools to write functions, calculate vectors and matrices and plot graphical representations of results. Explore ways to organize your work using scripts and functions to improve productivity.

What you'll learn

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  • To use and to write scripts and functions using MATLAB and Octave
  • To work with vectors and matrices
  • To handle data files
  • To plot graphics and save them in pdf and jpg formats
  • To write interactive programs

Meet your instructors

École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Simone Deparis
Maitre d’Enseignement et de Recherche
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

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Learner testimonials

"Thank you for this course and for using Octave. My compliments for this course. It has been really amazing how you have been able to expose the main topics of the Octave programming in hardly a month. The only troubles I have found are related with the quizzes, and I know that have been caused due some problems of Mathworks related with the use of Octave in this course. I am a hard defender of the free software, so I would like to encourage you to maintain this politics in despite of this kind of problems. It could be great helping to develop some automatic Octave system on the server side to do easy the task of examining. Great... and Thank You!"
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