====== Matlab vocabulary ======

You should be familiar with most of the following Matlab programming constructs and functions. 
I have put parentheses around topics we haven't covered yet, which you aren't responsible for knowing.
I'll remove the parentheses when we cover the topic. 


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  compact scientific notation (e.g. 1.4e-06)
  (complex numbers (e.g. 3 + 4*i))
  Inf, NaN

  =           assignment
  - + * / ^   algebraic operations
  \           solve system of equations Ax=b  (x = A\b)

  commas and semicolons
  how to write a row vector
  how to write a col vector
  how to write a matrix
  how to write a complex number
  
  elementwise operations on vectors, matrices
    - + .* ./ .^
 
  conditional expressions (boolean algebra)
    ==
    ~=
    >
    <
    >=
    <=
    ~
    &&  (simple AND)
    ||  (simple OR)
    &   (componentwise AND for vectors)
    |   (componentwise OR  for vectors)
    zero    means false    
    nonzero means true

  control flow 
    for-end
    if-elseif-else-end
    while-end
    (switch)

    (continue) 
    (break)
    (pause)

  constructing matrices and vectors
    square brackets [ ] 
    colon syntax
    linspace
    zeros
    ones
    eye
    rand
    randi
    randn
    
  hugely helpful miscellaneous functions
    sum
    mean
    sort
    (ceil)
    (floor)
    round
    size
    (input)
    (disp)
    fprintf (%c, %s, %d, %f, \n)
    save
    load
    clear
    class
    (who)
    (what)
    (which)
    
  plotting functions
    plot
    semilogy
    (semilogx)
    (loglog)
    contour
    (hist)
    xlabel
    ylabel
    title 
    legend
    axes
    (hold, hold off, hold on)
    clf
    grid off, grid on
    color & marker codes
    figure
    (subplot)


  user-defined functions
    function name, filename
    arguments
    outputs 
    anonymous functions
    syntax for using a function as an argument to another function
     
  scripts
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