Matlab documentation

Official Matlab documentation

• Matlab Help Desk: A web-interface to the full on-line documentation for Matlab 5.1. Among other things it contains documentation for all Matlab functions, the Handle Graphics Objects, the Application Program Interface. Also contains links to the full manual set for Matlab 5.1. The manuals are in PDF format and can be viewed with Adobe Acrobat (acroread).

Tutorial and Emacs mode

• Matlab Primer: An excellent introduction and tutorial to Matlab. Originally written for version 3.5, but most things apply to version 5.1. Also available in a browsable HTML-version.
• Emacs mode: Matlab mode for GNU Emacs. Allows you to edit m-files with automatic indentation and run Matlab inside your favorite editor :-) . To use, insert this in your .emacs file.
  

Links to The MathWorks

• The MathWorks, Inc.: Home page of The MathWorks which is the creator of Matlab and Simulink. The MathWorks website contains a lot of information on different products, announcements of new products and features, technical support including answers to frequently-asked-questions, a Matlab newsletter, a lot of public domain M-files and much more.
• The MathWorks, Inc. Technical Support FAQ: Answers to frequently-asked-questions about Matlab 5 and related products - VERY useful!
• The MathWorks Software library : Ftp Server with user-contributed M/MEX files plus MathWorks contributed M-files with unreleased toolboxes, patches and bug fixes. The archive of user-contributed software contains many useful M/MEX files for a wide range of applications. Most contributions are written for Matlab 4, but will run in Matlab 5 with no or little modification. Take a brief look at the archive before you start programming...what you need may already be there!
• Matlab News Digest: A quarterly electronic news bulletin about Matlab. Contains announcements of new products or features, tips and tricks for Matlab users, tech-info and info on MathWorks and third-party products. To sign up you need to know the site license number, which you can get by typing "ver" at the Matlab prompt.