Summary and Schedule
This is a newly built lesson to introduce academics at the University of Sheffield to MATLAB. It is built with The Carpentries Workbench.
| Setup Instructions | Download files required for the lesson | |
| Duration: 00h 00m | 1. What is MATLAB? |
What does MATLAB do? How can MATLAB help my Research? Is MATLAB the best tool for my Research project? |
| Duration: 00h 12m | 2. Matlab Layout |
What do all the different parts of the MATLAB interface do? What features are important to get started in MATLAB? |
| Duration: 00h 24m | 3. Creating Variables |
How can I store and work on data? What does MATLAB assume about data? How can I handle data of 2, 3 or more dimensions? |
| Duration: 00h 36m | 4. Working with Variables |
How can I fetch data out of a variable? How can I change the values of parts of variables? What are operations? |
| Duration: 00h 48m | 5. Plotting |
How can I visualise my data to explore it and gain insights? What types of plot does MATLAB support? |
| Duration: 01h 00m | 6. Logic |
How can I make my code do different things when variables
change? How can I compare values in an array to other values? How can I select subsets of my data depending on a comparison? |
| Duration: 01h 12m | 7. Control |
What are the different types of loop? How can you control loops to exit early or skip iterations? How can you loop over multiple objects at the same time? |
| Duration: 01h 24m | Finish |
The actual schedule may vary slightly depending on the topics and exercises chosen by the instructor.
Data Sets
For this lesson you will require 2 datasets available from Google Drive: Sheffield Rain India Rain
You don’t need to do anything but download them onto your computer before the lesson.
Software Setup
It is preferable if you could bring your own machine with MATLAB downloaded onto it. Instructions on how to download MATLAB can be found here: https://students.sheffield.ac.uk/it-services/software/matlab
If MATLAB is not installed on the computer you are using for the session, MATLAB Online allows you to use MATLAB in your browser. However some UI features will vary slightly.