MATLAB is a powerful commercial tool which supports simulation and modeling across a wide range of science and engineering applications. Octave is an open source clone put out by GNU. Both tools make it extremely easy to express mathematical equations in a high-level programming language, and visualize the results. This brief introduction describes the MATLAB language and shows how to get started using it for simple modeling problems.

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Michael McLennan (2009), "Introduction to Scientific Programming in MATLAB," https://help.hubzero.org/resources/50.

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