Advice on scripting for beginners

Joshua Menke

For many of you, this book will be your first exposure to scripting, the process of instructing MatLab what to do to your data. Although you will be learning something new, many other tasks of daily life will have already taught you relevant skills. Scripts are not so different than travel directions, cooking recipes, carpentry and building plans, and tailoring instructions. Each is in pursuit of a specific goal, a final product that has value to you. Each has a clear starting place and raw materials. And each requires a specific, and often lengthy, set of steps that need to be seen to completion in order to reach the goal. Put the skills that you have learned in these other arenas of life to ...

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