We have a common
habit of taking task when we completely know the skills but the real fun is
learning the art while being in the arena. No one learns swimming by sitting in
his/her room. Similarly, I have not seen a guitarist strike a wonderful stroke
without touching the guitar. Friends its time the idea of learning be changed.
The old school, which gives us confidence in academic habits by book, should
see a fresh rise of novel methods of learning by doing. I read it somewhere,
and I quote it with due respect to the original author whose name I no longer
remember:
“Hear
and forget, See and remember but DO and know.”
Therefore, it is
our time to take the task of problem solving in a different way. The series
will focus more on the use of tools rather than the theoretical details of the
tools. Computation using programming (scripting in case of MATLAB) is great fun
and I hope you all will join me on this voyage to learn. The process of learning
cycle will complete only when you do take the MATLAB scripts file posted here
and use them for your own understanding. You need to execute it and tinker with
the given scripts. May be you will stumble across some wonderful concept, and
if you do so let me know because true learning is a two way process and I hope
you are going to knock out better ways of programming (and write to me about
your great experiences).
I plan to post
articles related to techniques of computational methods using MATLAB as a tool.
However, since MATLAB is a great platform with many inbuilt functions we may
lose touch with the charm of numerical analysis. To overcome this I plan to upload a
traditional method of programming along with the ways MATLAB uses to make life
easier. Even some concepts of mathematical details will be added to make the
understanding of the script easier.
Therefore,
friends let us take it in a fresh way. If you are, novice to the world of
scripting this is going to be a lot of FUN.
Remember the
real way of learning any art is to perform the art and programming/scripting in
computers is an art and you cannot excel in this art without performing it.
(Post related to MATLAB introducton to follow.)
Majid Hassan Khan
Excellent one, really helpful for starter.
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