Errors and Pitfalls
The objective of this chapter is to enable you to:
Begin to recognize and avoid different sorts of errors and pitfalls
Even experienced programmers seldom get programs to run correctly the first time. In computer jargon, an error in a program is called a bug. The story is that a hapless moth short-circuited two thermionic valves in one of the earliest computers. This primeval (charcoaled) “bug” took days to find. The process of detecting and correcting such errors is therefore called debugging. There are a number of different types of errors and pitfalls, some of which are peculiar to MATLAB, and some of which may ...
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