Hi, my name is Mike Fitzpatrick. >> And I am Akos Ledeczi.

>> We're coming to yo

u from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. >> We have put together a
course whose purpose is to teach computer programming to people with little or n
o programming experience. >> To program a computer you have to use a programming
language. There are a lot of them. You may have heard of some of them, C++, Jav
a, for example. But for this course we've decided to use a programming language
that you may not have heard of. It's called MATLAB. >> The purpose of MATLAB'S d
esigners was to make programming easier, especially for solving numerical proble
ms. >> And they succeeded. MATLAB is very easy to use and to learn. And at the s
ame time, it's very powerful.
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It's used world-wide by professionals, from scientists to engineers, to economis
ts.
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>> Many of the devices you use daily, your car, your smart phone, have features
and components that were developed with the help of MATLAB. >> When you see the
news about a NASA mission, you can be pretty sure that their programmers and com
puter experts used MATLAB to make it happen. >> Our purpose with this course is
to teach the basics of computer programming and MATLAB. >> The level of the cour
se is that of a college introductory first-year course. It's nine weeks long, in
cluding eight weeks of video lectures, and one week for a final homework submiss
ion. >> If you follow along with us try all the examples as you'll see. Do the q
uizzes and the homeworks, then by the end of the ninth week you'll be able to pr
ogram a computer. >> In fact you'll be good at it. And you should have fun doing
it.
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And as an added benefit, all registered students of this course will get a free
MATLAB license. >> So what are you waiting for? It's time to learn computer prog
ramming with MATLAB.