University of Alaska Fairbanks
Geophysical Institute

Beyond the Mouse 2010 - The geoscientist's computational chest.

2. Fundamental Programming Principles I -- Variables and Data Types

"Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavor."
Donald E. Knuth

Brief introduction on how programming works, what variables and data types are, how to think about them and how you could/should use them.

Lecture

fundamental programming principles (pdf)

LAB 02

LAB: Matlab and Variables

Examples

I give a few simple Matlab scripts and a Shell script as examples for how arrays can be used. The sources are available as tar.gz or zip archive.

Exercises:

TBD.

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