Time and Place: TR 11:00--12:15 in DuSable Hall 310
Instructor: Professor Greg Ammar
E-mail: ammar@math.niu.edu Phone: (815) 753-6798.
Office:     373 Watson Hall   Office Hours: TR 2:00-3:00, W 1:30-3:00, and by appointment.

Course Information Sheet

Sample MATLAB programs:	bisect.m (MATLAB function for the bisection algorithm)
	test_bisect.m (MATLAB script showing call to bisect.m)

Matlab availability in campus computer labs:

According the the ITS web pages, MATLAB is available in the following computer labs:

• Stevens Annex: SB 121, SB 122
• Faraday East: FR 231
• Psyc/CompSci: PM 051, PM 053, PM 056

Getting acquainted with MATLAB:

Start MATLAB, open the help window, and click on "Getting Started". You can read this online and follow along using the MATLAB command window to enter the commands yourself.

Click below for links to some additional documents to help you get started using MATLAB:
MATLAB RESOURCES

MATLAB-like computing and programming environments:

Below are links to two different software packages that are largely (but not totally) the same as MATLAB. Both of these are free software that will run on a windows PC and on other platforms.

• Freemat
• Octave