Introduction to Matlab 7 (ESource Series) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Dolores Etter, David Kuncicky, Holly Moore
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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ISBN: 0131474928
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Muddles matters by mixing engineering technique with Matlab August 4, 2007
calvinnme (Fredericksburg, Va)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A book that succeeds at teaching Matlab generally limits itself to just that. This book tries to hard to be an engineer's guide to Matlab and adds some unnecessary filler starting with chapter one "An Introduction to Engineering Problem Solving". This is not really what someone who wants to learn Matlab wants to see, and it could have been omitted with nobody really missing it.
The book has a rather confusing way of introducing the Matlab user interface. There are generally several ways of using Matlab, and this book tries to force one particular way of using the program down the student's throat, whether it may seem natural or not. The book does a good job of introducing the syntax of individual parts of Matlab. However, it is so busy showing the student how to solve real problems with Matlab it forgets to show a real Matlab program - as in "this is calcdrag.m, which calculates the drag generated by an aircraft". It does show this sort of thing eventually, but in a roundabout and convoluted way. The book is pretty good at coming up with interesting problems to solve using Matlab, but I think it does a rather mediocre job of teaching the language itself.
I've found the best guide for beginners to be "Mastering MATLAB 7". It is very good for beginners who need to look up how to do general tasks such as write a function using variable arguments, perform plotting, or figure out how to shoe-horn a problem into Matlab that doesn't really seem to fit the Matlab paradigm of everything being a matrix. Another good book is "Getting Started with MATLAB 7: A Quick Introduction for Scientists and Engineers". That book not only explains Matlab well, it shows how to apply all aspects of the language to engineering problems in a clear and concise manner.
If you get stuck with this book as a textbook in a class and you find it somewhat incoherent, the two alternative texts I mention are very affordable supplements/alternatives.
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