What's a good book to learn matlab from scratch......??Finding an incresing number of quant jobs are looking for this skill

Introduction to matlab 6 by Delores Etter et al;there also one other book by Etter that was called sort of "ntorduction to matlab for scientist & engineers" or something like that (little older book though)anyway...I have found no book that tell you exactly the pitfalls such as "hey, why the heck it is telling me that can't multiply C=A*b; it just did it when I did the debbugging"" OH, it is beacuse you haven't not clear the variables,otherwise it is still believe that C is a 2x2 matrix (that was the product at that time) and when you run it again, it will tell you that you cannot a mistmatch!!!OH, so you say..I am a moron...so, the answer ti that is..welll, yes ...and so on, and son on...anyone up to write such book? That would be a real good introduction to matlab...migth be called "learning matlab without pain or how to make programs and become an expert in matlab and have a sex life as wel...

Quotehow to make programs and become an expert in matlab and have a sex life as wel...Most of my friends experimenting with MATLAB 6 are engineers hence their sex lives are non-existant. From what little I know of MATLAB a lot of it is learnt thru experimenting with code.If you want to start MATLAB from scratch a good introductory book is Mastering MATLAB. The book is of little help should you want to learn more advanced concepts though.

Introduction to MATLAB 6Introduction to MATLAB for Engineers and ScientistsMastering MATLAB 6

Hi,The best place to start learning Matlab is probably here:http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdes ... chdoc/Eric

This may be worth a look

Nice one Feanor!!

Very nice Feanor. Thanks

Dear AllApparantely Matlab 7 is out now. Which means that the books mentioned will get into new editions. Should I wait or what?RegardsPauldrei

I would say you don't have to wait...typically matlab basic commands stay the same and since we are talking here about basic stuff it (mots likely) be the same structure, commnads,etc. that any previous matlab version...Different would be, for example, if you develop an application suing a toolbox such as the ANN...I did my master thesis using matlab 5 and it would not run in matlab 6 (the commands changed, etc. very, very different....basically to make it run you would have to do the programming all over...but the basic commndas used were the same in both version..

I agree. Especially since all these references are free! :)The link I gave is actually for Matlab 7.I recently had to "upgrade" a 30,000 line code from Matlab 6.5 to Matlab 7. I think there was only 4 or 5 very minor changes I needed to make. For example, Matlab 7 handles data types slightly differently so in some places where I was using logical types in algebraic computations, I needed to insert a few "double" commands to convert logic "0" to double "0".Here are the Matlab 7 release notes:http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdes ... n.htmlEric