Learning to Program with MATLAB: Building GUI Tools

The text is for instructors who want to use MATLAB to teachintroductory programming concepts. Since many students strugglewith applying the concepts that underlie good programmingpractice,  Learning to Program with MATLAB: Building GUITools was designed upon the observation that studentlearning is enhanced if the students themselves build the GUI(graphical user interface) tool, construct the computational model,implement the visualization of results, and design the GUI. Thistext teaches the core concepts of computerprogramming—arrays, loops, functions, and basic datastructures—using MATLAB. The chapter sequence coverstext-based programs, then programs that produce graphics, buildingup to an emphasis on GUI tools. This progression unleashes the realpower of MATLAB—creating visual expressions of the underlyingmathematics of a problem or design.