Taster Content: Department of Mathematical Sciences

Before the lab

Over the next four weeks, we are going to learning to write basic code in MATLAB to allow us to answer several mathematical problems—but the skills you learn here are transferable to other programming languages and modules, as we will see then we move on to look at R later on in this module

Before going any further, if you have not already done so make sure you are able to run MATLAB on the computer that you are using, hopefully, you did this last week, but if not, go back to last week's instructions and do that before going any further.

Once that is done you are ready to get started. Before the lab, you need to work through the instructions on the following pages. Don't worry if it seems new to you, that will be true for lots of people on this module, we will not be assuming you have ever used Matlab before and if you need help with anything, just ask!

In the lab

In the lab, we are going to work in small groups (of 3-4) to write some MATLAB functions to allow us to answer some problems that it would be impractical (or at the very best tedious) to do by hand.

At the start of the please make sure you have a copy of MATLAB running. You will be assigned a group to work with once the lab begins. Only one of you needs to submit the work (the first question asks you who you worked with). But I suggest you all share the file containing your solutions at the end of your work so that you can all try running the code and all have a copy of the files, as they may help you in subsequent weeks.

Assignment

This week's assignment can be submitted using the link below: