How to Learn MATLAB the Easy Way

Do you know how to learn MATLAB the easy way?

Learn Maple first. After that, Matlab is easy.

I only want to learn Matlab.

Take an advanced college math class where they teach Matlab along with the Calculus 3, differential equations or linear algebra.

I can’t consider Calculus 3 the easy way.

So take the Introduction to Matlab course on MIT OpenCourseWare.

I’d need to know Matlab just to calculate the cost of an MIT course.

OpenCourseWare is an open source, free online class.

MIT still might be over my head.

So take the online Matlab tutorial by Utah State.

Do you have to have the student version of Matlab?

Oh, you can always pay for the full version of Matlab to practice with.

Can you get Matlab for free to practice with?

You could sneak into some math lab and practice on their PCs, or you could try to buy the math textbook and software CD and hope it still works.

Or I could by the Matlab for stupid people books.

You recommended it, not me. But buying one of those books doesn’t mean you are stupid, though letting it sit on the shelf and assuming you’ll learn by osmosis is.

Or I could borrow it for free from the library.

That has the benefit of not requiring you to add up the costs in financial software like Quicken.

The books are just an introduction.

You’ll learn more about how to use Matlab by using the easy examples in Matlab books or tutorials than trying it on your own and then struggling to debug it.

Trying to debug the programming would be quite a learning experience.

Only if you want to do it the hard way – and learn programming the wrong way.