Front Cover -- MATLAB a Practical Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Introduction to Programming Using MATLAB -- Chapter 1: Introduction to MATLAB -- Getting into MATLAB -- The MATLAB Desktop Environment -- Variables and Assignment Statements -- Expressions -- Characters and Encoding -- Vectors and Matrices -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Introduction to MATLAB Programming -- Algorithms -- MATLAB Scripts -- Input and Output -- Scripts with Input and Output -- Scripts to Produce and Customize Simple Plots -- Introduction to File Input/Output (Load and Save) -- User-Defined Functions That Return a Single Value -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Selection Statements -- Relational Expressions -- The if Statement -- The If-else Statement -- Nested if-Else Statements -- The switch statement -- The menu function -- The "is" functions in MATLAB -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Loop Statements -- The For Loop -- Nested For Loops -- While Loops -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Vectorized Code -- Loops with Vectors and Matrices -- Operations on Vectors and Matrices -- Vectors and Matrices as Function Arguments -- Logical Vectors -- Vectorizing Code -- Timing -- Summary -- Chapter 6: MATLAB Programs -- More Types of User-Defined Functions -- MATLAB Program Organization -- Application: Menu-Driven Modular Program -- Variable Scope -- Debugging Techniques -- Summary -- Chapter 7: String Manipulation -- Creating String Variables -- Operations on Strings -- The "is" functions for strings -- Converting Between String and Number Types -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Data Structures: Cell Arrays and Structures -- Cell Arrays -- Structures -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Advanced File Input and Output -- Lower-level File I/O Functions -- Writing and reading spreadsheet files -- Using MAT-files for Variables -- Summary.

Chapter 10: Advanced Functions -- Anonymous Functions -- Uses of Function Handles -- Variable Numbers of Arguments -- Nested Functions -- Recursive Functions -- Summary -- Part 2: Advanced Topics for Problem Solving with MATLAB -- Chapter 11: Advanced Plotting Techniques -- Plot Functions -- Animation -- Three-Dimensional Plots -- Customizing Plots -- Handle Graphics and Plot Properties -- Plot Applications -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Matrix Representation of Linear Algebraic Equations -- Matrix Definitions -- Matrix Solutions to Systems of Linear Algebraic Equations -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Basic Statistics, Sets, Sorting, and Indexing -- Statistical Functions -- Set Operations -- Sorting -- Index Vectors -- Searching -- Summary -- Chapter 14: Sights and Sounds -- Sound Files -- Image Processing -- Introduction to Graphical User Interfaces -- Summary -- Chapter 15: Advanced Mathematics -- Fitting Curves to Data -- Complex Numbers -- Symbolic Mathematics -- Calculus: Integration and Differentiation -- Summary -- Index.