Recommended books and resources for learning MATLAB

Question

Can anyone recommend good books or online resources for learning MATLAB? It's for an experienced programmer, needing to learn MATLAB for computational and GUI applications.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can start with this exhaustive list of Matlab tutorial.

There's also a shorter list of university tutorials, which are short and to the point - probably intended to non-programmers who need some basic advice to get around.

Answer 2

matlab central has nice blogs, the file exchange has good examples to look at. there are also forums specific to matlab

Answer 3

There are several books (i.e. apart from web resources) for specific disciplines. Since you mentioned computation, I'd recommend Numerical Methods using MATLAB.

Answer 4

Don't underestimate the value of the MATLAB documentation. It's very complete, with a lot of details and examples. I've learned most of what I know just from the help documentation.

Other helpful resources:

• The MathWorks blogs (you might find Doug's video tutorials on GUI design the most interesting)
• The File Exchange (for sample code from other users)
• The MATLAB newsgroup (a good place for asking questions specific to MATLAB)
• Some built-in functions you can use in the MATLAB command window: HELP, LOOKFOR

Answer 5

I put up a weekly video in my blog:

http://blogs.mathworks.com/videos/

I often have GUI focused videos here:

http://blogs.mathworks.com/videos/category/gui-or-guide/