Lesson 3.1: Introduction to Functions

A video segment from the Coursera MOOC on introductory computer programming with MATLAB by Vanderbilt. Lead instructor: Mike Fitzpatrick.

[RYXPfan]

I've taken four computer science classes as a non-cs major (I'm mechanical/aerospace engineering) and I feel like most of my professors breeze through material without taking time to mention simple connections that they take for granted but many students have not yet learned. I really like this series of videos because the Mike does not do that. The extra detail and time taken allows me to learn matlab faster than I could from someone who assumes new students enjoy learning all the connections painstakingly on their own. Thanks for making these so well!

[kadirnusfy]

Hello, at 4:44 your video shows that there's 10 lessons for matlab while the course end at lesson 8, Is there anyway to get those 2 extra lessons?

[hadjer]

is it correct that I put a function : 10*rand(3, 4) to get random numbers from 1 to 9 ??? Thank you Sir.

[dharmeshvora]

hello if i want to print only the odd numbers between 1 to 100. then how can i do this?

[RohitKumar-jrte]

I type rand(3, 4) in my MATLAB software. I got the exactly same 3x4 matrix. Is this rand fuction actually depicts the randomness or it follow some algorithm to give output?

[RorreResuEht]

I did the same thing he did, and it did not work. I even cleared out my variables, and it still did not work. Well, it turned out it did not like me setting "a=..", and once I removed that, it worked fine - instead it just used the default "ans" variable

[michaelcastelpoggi]

IS IT REALLY RANDOM IF MY NUMBERS ARE THE SAME AS YOURS