The Basics · Lecture Videos
MIT OpenCourseWare
Introduction To MATLAB Programming
Art: Max Brückner (1860 – 1934), Brückner Vielflache Tafel 07 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Yossi Farjoun
- Term
- Fall 2011
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 6 videos · 44 other files · 33 web pages
- Materials open
- Videos here · files on MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 18.S997 Introduction To MATLAB Programming, Fall 2011, Yossi Farjoun — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Before you start
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How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
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Materials by section
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Library
35 files in this section
Exercises
21 files
- 18.S997 Basic Plotting: Exercise 10 Download
- 18.S997 Basic Plotting: Exercise 11 Download
- 18.S997 Conway Game Exercise 20 Download
- 18.S997 Conway Game Exercise 21 Download
- 18.S997 Fractals and Chaos: Exercise 16 Download
- 18.S997 Fractals and Chaos: Exercise 17 Download
- 18.S997 Fractals and Chaos: Exercise 18 Download
- 18.S997 Fractals and Chaos: Exercise 19 Download
- 18.S997 Root-Finding: Exercise 4 Download
- 18.S997 Root-Finding: Exercise 5 Download
- 18.S997 Root-Finding: Exercise 6 Download
- 18.S997 Root-Finding: Exercise 7 Download
- 18.S997 Root-Finding: Exercise 8 Download
- 18.S997 Root-Finding: Exercise 9 Download
- 18.S997 The Basics: Exercise 1 Download
- 18.S997 The Basics: Exercise 2 Download
- 18.S997 The Basics: Exercise 3 Download
- 18.S997 Vectorization: Exercise 12 Download
- 18.S997 Vectorization: Exercise 13 Download
- 18.S997 Vectorization: Exercise 14 Download
- 18.S997 Vectorization: Exercise 15 Download
Homework
10 files
- 18.S997 Conway Game: Homework 9 Download
- 18.S997 Conway Game: Homework 10 Download
- 18.S997 Fractals and Chaos: Homework 4 Download
- 18.S997 Fractals and Chaos: Homework 5 Download
- 18.S997 Fractals and Chaos: Homework 6 Download
- 18.S997 Fractals and Chaos: Homework 7 Download
- 18.S997 Fractals and Chaos: Homework 8 Download
- 18.S997 Root-Finding: Homework 2 Download
- 18.S997 The Basics: Homework 1 Download
- 18.S997 Vectorization: Homework 3 Download
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Other materials from this course
- Transcript for Lecture 3: Using Files Download
- Transcript for Lecture 1: Using MATLAB for the First Time Download
- Transcript for Lecture 2: The Command Prompt Download
- Transcript for Lecture 5: Scripts and Functions Download
- Transcript for Lecture 6: Debugging Download
- Transcript for Lecture 4: Plotting Download
23 images
- Screenshot of MATLAB’s command prompt and a series of for basic mathematical operations Open ↗
- Graph of a line and roots to verify second-order convergence of Newton’s method Open ↗
- Screenshot of plot commands and resultant red circle and black Lissajous curves Open ↗
- Screenshot of a function definition to covert Fahrenheit to Celsius and the respective function… Open ↗
- Graph of 100 iterations of the Mandelbrot fractal Open ↗
- Screenshot of MATLAB’s debugger mode and stepping into a function Open ↗
- Photograph of a state in Conway’s Game of Life after multiple iterations Open ↗
- vid1-thumbnail.jpg Open ↗
- vid2-thumbnail.jpg Open ↗
- vid3-thumbnail.jpg Open ↗
- vid4-thumbnail.jpg Open ↗
- vid5-thumbnail.jpg Open ↗
- vid6-thumbnail.jpg Open ↗
- Graph of a line and roots to verify second-order convergence of Newton’s method Open ↗
- Graph of an upward-facing parabola in blue Open ↗
- Graph of an upward-facing parabola with discontinuous green line markers Open ↗
- Graph of a Lissajous figure in red Open ↗
- Colorful graphic with symmetry around a center point Open ↗
- A colorful 1000x1000 plot of basin of attraction with radial symmetry Open ↗
- Graph of the oscillator iterations in blue Open ↗
- Plot of many iterations of a function that branches to the right Open ↗
- Graph of 100 iterations of the Mandelbrot fractal in gray Open ↗
- Graph of 100 iterations of the Mandelbrot fractal Open ↗
Course outline
Command Prompt and Expressions · Lecture Videos
Lecture 2: The Command Prompt
The Secant Method · Lecture Videos
Lecture 6: Debugging
The Secant Method · Lecture Videos
Lecture 3: Using Files
Basic Plotting · Lecture Videos
Lecture 4: Plotting
Scope · Lecture Videos
Lecture 5: Scripts and Functions
MIT OpenCourseWare, Yossi Farjoun, 18.S997 Introduction To MATLAB Programming, Fall 2011.
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