Explorando la codificación de Matlab para futuros ingenieros

A 10-week journey into the world of MATLAB programming. In this course, students will embark on a hands-on exploration of MATLAB, a powerful programming language used in engineering, science, and beyond. From mastering basic syntax to creating interactive plots and simulations, students will gain practical skills and unleash their creativity through engaging projects and coding challenges.

Week 1: Introduction to MATLAB Basics

Overview of MATLAB environment: Command Window, Workspace, Editor.
Introduction to MATLAB syntax: commands, functions, comments.
Understanding variables and data types: numeric, character, logical.
Hands-on activity: Writing and executing basic MATLAB commands and scripts.

Week 2: Working with Matrices and Vectors

Introduction to MATLAB arrays: matrices and vectors.
Basic operations on matrices: addition, subtraction, multiplication.
Indexing and slicing matrices: accessing elements and submatrices.
Hands-on activity: Performing matrix operations and solving simple problems using matrices.

Week 3: Plotting and Visualization

Introduction to MATLAB plotting: plot types, axes labels, titles.
Customizing plots: colors, markers, line styles.
Adding annotations: text, arrows, legends.
Hands-on activity: Creating and customizing various types of plots, such as line plots and scatter plots.

Week 4: Conditional Statements and Loops

Introduction to conditional statements: if, else, elseif.
Basics of loops: for loops and while loops.
Using logical operators: AND, OR, NOT.
Hands-on activity: Writing scripts to solve problems using conditional statements and loops.

Week 5: Functions and Scripts

Introduction to MATLAB functions: defining and calling functions.
Passing arguments to functions: input and output arguments.
Scope of variables: local and global variables.
Hands-on activity: Creating custom functions to perform specific tasks and integrating them into scripts.

Week 6: Functions and Scripts lesson 2

Week 7: Basic Image Processing

Introduction to image processing in MATLAB: imread, imshow functions.
Basic operations on images: resizing, cropping, rotating.
Filtering and enhancing images
Hands-on activity: Applying basic image processing techniques to enhance and analyze images.

Week 8: File I/O Operations

Reading from and writing to files in MATLAB: text files, Excel files.
Importing data into MATLAB: csvread, xlsread functions.
Exporting data from MATLAB: fprintf, xlswrite functions.
Hands-on activity: Reading data from a file, performing analysis, and saving results back to a file


Week 9: Creative Projects and Applications

Review and consolidation of concepts learned so far.
Students work on creative projects of their choice using MATLAB.
Guidance and support provided as students explore their project ideas.
Project presentations and sharing of experiences among students.

Week 10: Final Project Showcase

Students showcase their final projects developed throughout the course.
Presentations: Each student presents their project, explaining the problem they solved and the MATLAB techniques they used.