Announcements

• 1/21: Homework hand in instructions will be given early next week. Note that if you write your homework with latex, you can produce a pdf file by first making a ps file using 'dvips', then using 'distill' to convert the ps file into a pdf file. The utility 'distill' is available on 'paul' cluster. You can also convert a MS WORD file into a pdf file using certain free software.
• 1/25: One of the handouts for this evening's MATLAB tutorial is available online. Click here. You may also want to consult the online Matlab tutorials listed at the bottom of this page.
• 1/25: Homework should be handed in through http://handin.rutgers.edu. Please read the "Handin User Documentation" carefully and try to submit a test.txt file (with your name in it) to Assignment1. If you have difficulty submitting files to the handin server, please see me during my office hour. Note the deadline for assignment 1 is Jan 31, 11:59pm which is strictly enforced by the handin server.
• 1/28: Currently, the handin software takes only one file for each project/assignment. So you have to bundle the files you want to submit and handin the bundle file. On UNIX platform like 'paul', you can bundle the files with 'tar'. Say for Assignment1, you want to submit a writeup file 'hw1_writeup.pdf' and a matlab file 'hw1_Q4.m'. On 'paul', you can do:

  tar cvf HW1 hw1_writeup.pdf hw1_Q4.m

  Then submit the tar file HW1. To extract 'hw1_writeup.pdf' and 'hw1_Q4.m' from 'HW1', you do:

  tar xvf HW1

  REMEMBER TO PUT YOUR NAME IN EVERY FILE YOU SUBMIT.

• 2/14: The official Matlab function reference by MATHWORKS is a valuable resource. For example, in the "Graphics" category, you can easily find a function that plots implicit functions.
• 2/16: Assignment2 has been set up in handin server.
• 3/16: The MATLAB software installed on paul and Rutgers Computing Center PCs is not the latest version. In particular, the 'cell2mat' function used in walker.m (Walker's problem in Assignment3) is not available. However, you can replace

  s = cell2mat(get(sliders,'value'));

  by

  CELL = get(sliders,'value');

  s = [CELL{1} CELL{2} CELL{3} CELL{4} CELL{5} CELL{6}]';

Matlab Resources on the Web