Course Objectives and content

Course Objectives:📈

To provide students with the fundamental elements for mastering programming tools, focusing on languages used for scientific and technical purposes.

Course Content:📝

Chapter 1: Getting Started

• Startup and variable help
• Variables
• Working directory
• Saving the work environment
• Functions and commands

Chapter 2: Numbers in MATLAB or Scilab

• Natural integers
• Real number representation
• Complex numbers

Chapter 3: Vectors and Matrices

• Operations on vectors and matrices
• Basic mathematical functions

Chapter 4: Programming Elements

• Script
• Function
• Control loops
• Conditional statements

Chapter 5: Polynomials

• Polynomials in MATLAB or Scilab
• Polynomial zeros
• Polynomial operations

Chapter 6: Graphics in MATLAB or Scilab

• 2D and 3D curve plotting
• Graph of a function
• Analytical surfaces

Chapter 7: Symbolic Calculation

• Calling the symbolic toolbox
• Expanding and transforming expressions
• Derivatives and integrals of a function
• Taylor series expansion of a function

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