Now in its eighth edition, this popular primary continues to offer hands-on, step-by-step introduction to using the powerful tools MATLAB. New to the Eighth Edition A new chapter on object-oriented programming Discussion of window MATLAB File Exchange, which provides direct access to more than 10,000 posts by users of MATLAB MATLAB Editor Major changes, such as code folding and integration Code Analyzer (M-Lint) to the Editor Further Help powerful tool , such as quick help popup to function through the browser function of the new bsxfun A synopsis of the function of each MATLAB Top 500 most frequently used functions, operators, and special characters Adding some useful features, including sets, logical indexing, isequal, repmat, reshape , varargin, and varargout This book takes you through a series of simple examples that become increasingly more complex. This text is commonly used functions and then introduce and explain how to write your own functions, before covering advanced features, such as object-oriented programming, calling a different language from MATLAB, and MATLAB graphics.