Introduction to matlab for medical doctors and biologists (call slides)

INTRODUCTION TO MATLAB FOR MEDICAL DOCTORS AND BIOLOGISTSSlide call

By: Jorge G Pires (BISMA Group, Thursday Morning Science)11/01/2016

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING AND MATLAB

Computer programming (often shortened to programming) is a process that leads from an original formulation of a computing problem to executable computer programs.

Programming involves activities such as analysis, developing understanding, generating algorithms, verification of requirements of algorithms including their correctness and resources consumption, and implementation (commonly referred to as coding[1][2]) of algorithms in a target programming language. 

Source code is written in one or more programming languages.

The purpose of programming is to find a sequence of instructions that will automate performing a specific task or solving a given problem. The process of programming thus often requires expertise in many different subjects, including knowledge of the application domain, specialized algorithms, and formal logic.

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING AND MATLAB

MATLAB (matrix laboratory) is a multi-paradigm numerical computing environment and fourth-generation programming language.

A proprietary programming language developed by MathWorks, MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages, including C, C++, C#, Java, Fortran and Python.

AGENDA

Module Title Content Sche. Date

Module 1 introduction to programming concepts

Introduction to computer

programming, introduction to Matlab

02/03/2017

Module 2 - - 09/03/2017

Module 3 - - 16/03/2017

Module 4 - - 23/03/2017

HOW CAN I INSTALL MATLAB?• Matlab(R) is a commercial software;• Some universities offer their own license;• Most universities offer versions installed in

their laboratories; • One can download a demo version, for one

Month; • On the day of the event, we are planning to

book a lab for the participant, you shall create a list on the Thursday Morning Science meeting, you may send an email to Antinisca Di Marco <[email protected]>

WHY MATLAB?• I have been working with Matlab for a while,

lately constantly;• It is adopted by most books in technical

computation;• It is “easy” to find;• It is ease to use;

SIMILAR SOFTWARE• Scilab (free): http://www.scilab.org/ (extremely

close to Matlab)• Octave(free):

https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ (extremely close to Matlab)

• Maple (commercial)• Mathematica;• R

That is all, hope see you around, either by broadcast or on the day of the seminars.Jorge [email protected]